Hello
Many thanks. I will follow the steps and see what happens.
Ed
On Thursday 23 February 2006 12:49 am, sanjay tripathi wrote:
> Hi Scenario: You've changed the location/path of a webpage on your server,
> but you don't want to break links to the old location. You could just use
> symlinks, but you want the new URL to appear in the user's browser so that
> new links/bookmarks point to the new, real location of your page. AND/OR
> you want requests to http://www.domain.com/sensitive.html to be redirected
> to the https:// (SSL) version of that page. Especially if that page is in
> an Apache realm that requires a login, and you want the login to be
> encrypted. This guide will explain how to do both of those things. Step
> 1: Make sure mod_rewrite is being loaded; in other words, make sure that
> /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf contains the line: LoadModule rewrite_module
> modules/mod_rewrite.so
> Step 2: Back up and then edit httpd.conf (you will need to be root). If
> you're using VirtualHost directives (see link), then find the VirtualHost
> block that corresponds to the url you want to rewrite. Otherwise put it in
> wherever you set the options for your site, or put it in a separate
> Directory block -- whatever you prefer. Add the line: RewriteEngine On
> Also, if it's not already set, you will need to add:
> Options +FollowSymlinks
> Step 3: Rules. If you're a regex king then you can get all kinds of fancy
> with these. I am just going to post a couple of simple example here:
> RewriteRule ^/oldpath/(.*)$ /newpath/$1 [R]
> In other words, http://www.domain.com/oldpath followed by anything --
> /oldpath/oldpage.html, /oldpath/index.php, or just /oldpath/ by itself --
> will be rewritten to http://www.domian.com/newpath (followed by whatever
> followed the original URL). The R in brackets means "rewrite the URL in the
> user's browser." You can do "invisible" rewrites by leaving this off.
> RewriteRule ^(.*)\.html$ $1.php [R=permanent]
> This is nice for when you re-do your entire website in php, but you don't
> want to break links to http://www.yoursite.com/somepage.html. SSL
> Redirects: Are more complicated than that. In httpd.conf you make the
> (relatively-straightforward) rule, preceded by a conditional: RewriteCond
> %{SERVER_PORT} !^443$ RewriteRule ^/secret(.*)$
> https://www.domain.com/secret/$1 [L,R] The RewriteCond line says, "if the
> request is not already going to port 443 (the https port), then rewrite
> it." This prevents the server from doing redundant rewrites on URLs that
> are already correct. The rule itself is very similar to the previous
> example, except that it rewrites with the whole domain name so that it can
> include the https: part. The bracketed R is explained above, the additional
> L means "last rule" which I guess tells Apache to stop running the rewrite
> module or something. I really don't know. But you're not done yet. Now
> you need to edit /etc/httpd/conf.d/ssl.conf. We're assuming here that
> you've already got certificates configured and whatnot (https: actually
> works). Here's what my Directory block looks like: <Directory
> "/home/www.domain.com/html/secret/"> Options +Indexes
> SSLOptions +StrictRequire SSLRequire
> %{SSL_CIPHER_USEKEYSIZE} >= 128 Order deny,allow deny
> from all ######## # These next five lines are for
> requiring an Apache login AuthType Basic AllowOverride
> AuthConfig AuthUserFile /etc/httpd/conf/users AuthName
> "Restricted Area" require valid-user ########
> satisfy any </Directory> If you're not using Apache realm authentication,
> then leave out those five lines. If you ARE doing realms, but using
> separate .htaccess files, there is a way to do the rewrites and keep the
> .htaccess files but I couldn't make it work so I just moved the directives
> into httpd.conf. Sorry
>
> emammendes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: Hello
>
> Certainly a newbie question but I wonder how apache directs http://mysite
> to https://mysite automatically? The setup on my machine is port 443 but
> this is not exactly what I want.
>
> Many thanks
>
> Ed
>
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