http --->https

[leonardo bianchi quota]

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

[Dave Falloon]

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

Dave

[leonardo bianchi quota]

yes, it is already working

[Dave Falloon]

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

[leonardo bianchi quota]

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.

[Stuart Browne · Accepted solution]

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)

[Stuart Browne]

(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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[Vijaya Kumar_3]

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

-Vijay

[leonardo bianchi quota]

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!!