Re: Virtual Host - Port 80 to 443 (Apache Users)

Dear Daniel

Thank you for the quick the reply. It is much appreciated.

If I understand you correctly, then the example below should be correct and will work for all the subdomains as well.

ServerName subdomain1.domain.ac.za

Redirect permanent / https://subdomain.domain.ac.za

</VirtualHost>

ServerName subdomain1.domain.ac.za

SSLEngine On

SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/pki/tls/certs/cnrstone/xxxxxxxxx.key

SSLCertificateFile /etc/pki/tls/certs/cnrstone/ xxxxxxxxx.crt

DocumentRoot "/var/www/subdomain.domain.ac.za/public_html"

Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews

# AllowOverride controls what directives may be placed in .htaccess files.

AllowOverride All

# Controls who can get stuff from this server file

Order allow,deny

Allow from all

</Directory>

ServerEnvironment apache apache

</IfModule>

</VirtualHost>

Kind Regards

Leon

From: Daniel <dferradal@xxxxxxxxx>
Reply-To: <users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thursday, 14 July 2016 at 11:40 AM
To: "<users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>" <users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [users@httpd] Virtual Host - Port 80 to 443

<VirtualHost *> is totally invalid. Use *:80 or *:443 or ip:port but never "*" alone.

Also if you define *:80 and there you want to redirect to the SSL virtualhost by all means use the http scheme in the redirect directive like:

Redirect permanent / https://subdomain.domain.ac.za/

2016-07-14 11:31 GMT+02:00 Leon Vergottini <leonv@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

Dear Community

I hope you are doing well today.

May I kindly ask your assistance since HTTPD is not my strong point? I have several virtual host conf files that have the structure below. I am now trying to change them so that incoming visitors from port 80 are being redirected to port 443:

<VirtualHost *>
            ServerName subdomain.domain.ac.za
            DocumentRoot "/var/www/ subdomain.domain.ac.za/public_html"
                    <Directory "/var/www/subdomain.domain.ac.za/public_html">
                    Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
             # AllowOverride controls what directives may be placed in .htaccess files.
                            AllowOverride All
            # Controls who can get stuff from this server file
                            Order allow,deny
                            Allow from all
               </Directory>
            <IfModule mpm_peruser_module>
                    ServerEnvironment apache apache
            </IfModule>
    </VirtualHost>

    If a change it to this structure below to redirect the traffic from port 80 to 443, I am getting the error message that connection is not private and if I continue I am getting the default Apache page instead of the intended site’s home page.

    <VirtualHost *>
            ServerName subdomain.domain,ac,za

            SSLEngine On
            SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/pki/tls/certs/cnrstone/xxxxxx.key
            SSLCertificateFile /etc/pki/tls/certs/cnrstone/ xxxxxx.crt

            RewriteEngine On
            RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off
            RewriteRule (.*) https://%{SERVER_NAME} [R,L]

            DocumentRoot "/var/www/ subdomain.domain.ac.za/public_html"
                    <Directory "/var/www/ subdomain.domain.ac.za/public_html">
                    Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
             # AllowOverride controls what directives may be placed in .htaccess files.
                            AllowOverride All
            # Controls who can get stuff from this server file
                            Order allow,deny
                            Allow from all
               </Directory>
            <IfModule mpm_peruser_module>
                    ServerEnvironment apache apache
            </IfModule>
    </VirtualHost>

    If I change it to this structure below, the page is presented when using the url https://subdomain.domain.ac.za/ but not http://subdomain.domain.ac.za/

    <VirtualHost *:443>
            ServerName subdomain.domain.ac.za

            SSLEngine On
            SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/pki/tls/certs/cnrstone/ xxxxxx.key
            SSLCertificateFile /etc/pki/tls/certs/cnrstone/ xxxxxx.crt

            DocumentRoot "/var/www/ subdomain.domain.ac.za/public_html"
                    <Directory "/var/www/ subdomain.domain.ac.za/public_html">
                    Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
             # AllowOverride controls what directives may be placed in .htaccess files.
                            AllowOverride All
            # Controls who can get stuff from this server file
                            Order allow,deny
                            Allow from all
               </Directory>
            <IfModule mpm_peruser_module>
                    ServerEnvironment apache apache
            </IfModule>
    </VirtualHost>

Last virhost structure that I tried is similar to the one below. When applying these changes to other virtual hosts files, I am not re-directed to the right site, i.e. url https://subdomain1.domain.ac.za gets redirected to https://subdomain.domain.ac.za.

<VirtualHost *:80>
   ServerName subdomain.domain.ac.za
   DocumentRoot "/var/www/subdomain.cornerstone.ac.za/public_html"
   Redirect permanent / subdomain.domain.ac.za
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost _default_:443>
   ServerName subdomain.domain.ac.za

            SSLEngine On
            SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/pki/tls/certs/cnrstone/ xxxxxx.key
            SSLCertificateFile /etc/pki/tls/certs/cnrstone/ xxxxxx.crt

            DocumentRoot "/var/www/subdomain.domain.ac.za/public_html"
                    <Directory "/var/www/ subdomain.domain.ac.za/public_html">
                    Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
             # AllowOverride controls what directives may be placed in .htaccess files.
                            AllowOverride All
            # Controls who can get stuff from this server file
                            Order allow,deny
                            Allow from all
               </Directory>
            <IfModule mpm_peruser_module>
                    ServerEnvironment apache apache
            </IfModule></VirtualHost>

In addition, I have received serveral .crt files for a wild card certificate issues by Comodo. Do I have to include them all and how will a go about doing so, if I have to?

Thank you in advance.

Kind Regards
Leon

Daniel Ferradal

IT Specialist

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