topic http --->https in Operating System - Linux

http --->https

leonardo bianchi quota — Mon, 17 Nov 2003 10:54:29 GMT

I would like to configure apache (1.3.27-3 to let users when they use a browser (ssl enabled) to redirect i.e. http://myserver/homepage automatically to https://myserver/homepage

Thanks in advance

Re: http --->https

Dave Falloon — Mon, 17 Nov 2003 11:32:11 GMT

This shouldn't be too much of a problem I don't think. Have you setup apache to use ssl yet?

Dave

Re: http --->https

leonardo bianchi quota — Mon, 17 Nov 2003 11:55:21 GMT

yes, it is already working

Re: http --->https

Dave Falloon — Mon, 17 Nov 2003 12:32:56 GMT

So you want apache to determine the type of browser and then from that decide which version of the page to show, either http or https?

That may be difficult to do within apache. Are you using php or cgi? If so you could do this in your main script.

Here is a link to a tutorial on how one guy used browser detection to change which css he used:

http://www.devarticles.com/art/1/425

If you definately want this in your apache server, you can try something like using the BrowserMatchNoCase directive in the setenvif.c module.

You may be able to use that to set up ssl something like this ( keep in mind I have not tested this I am just giving you an example from the top of my head ):

BrowserMatchNoCase ^Mozilla HTTPS

Or maybe you could replace HTTPS with SERVER_PORT=443

These are just some ideas, and I'm not all that confident that the best way to do this is within apache. I would recommend that all this take place inside a php or cgi script rather than your httpd.conf

I hope that helps,

Dave

Re: http --->https

leonardo bianchi quota — Mon, 17 Nov 2003 12:42:56 GMT

Ok, it's an idea I didn't thought. however I was thinking about permiting only https web enabled to go to my webpage. I ound a workaround to do that:

A first webpage with this script inside

<script LANGUAGE="JavaScript">

</script>

...I thought it was possible within apache.

Re: http --->https

Stuart Browne — Mon, 17 Nov 2003 18:51:55 GMT

mod_rewrite is your friend I beleive.

RewriteRule ^/(.*) https://new.url.com/$1 [R,NE]

Should do it. See the mod_rewrite documentation for moe details (http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/mod/mod_rewrite.html)

Re: http --->https

Stuart Browne — Mon, 17 Nov 2003 18:53:36 GMT

(oh, the doc I point to is a Apache2 doc, however the 1.3 is identical (http://httpd.apache.org/docs/mod/mod_rewrite.html)).

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Re: http --->https

Vijaya Kumar_3 — Mon, 17 Nov 2003 18:55:05 GMT

What abt an index.html page with http and do a HTML META REFERESH

-Vijay

Re: http --->https

leonardo bianchi quota — Sat, 29 Nov 2003 07:30:12 GMT

I did this and works. inside apache In a Virtualhost section

RewriteEngine on
RewriteLog "/var/log/rewrite.log"
RewriteLogLevel 1
Redirect permanent / https://192.168.9.19/

but sure other rules works better ;-)

Thank for klink to the documentation also!!