IT-Support@AStA TU Darmstadt wrote:
> Hello squirrelmail-community,
>
> I've installed & configured squirrelmail on debian linux (etch/testing)
> with apache2 and so far it works fine! :-)
> What I want to do now, is to secure the login process.
> The manual tells about the "RedirectPermanent" option that I already use
> for mailman and I would prefer this option.
> The problem is, that configuring apache with "RedirectPermant" for
> squirrelmail-login obviously cause a loop and the browser hangs. Why?
> With mailman it works fine?
> I'd like to avoid using mod_rewrite.
>
> Any ideas?
If you have control over the apache config... I found this to be very
effective:
I added the following to the squirelmail.conf file and restarted apache
(On my system that's in /etc/httpd.conf.d directory)
<Location ~ /webmail>
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} !=on
RewriteRule .* https://%{SERVER_NAME}/webmail/ [R,L]
</Location>
This means that if you connect to squirrelmail as "http:// ...." it
automatically "switches over" as if you had used https...
I find this is very simple, effective and easily understood. :-)
I like it because I would enter the domain/path without a scheme (http
vs https), see a non-secure page, then re-enter the url WITH a scheme...
now can can still use my bad habits (omitting scheme) and my server
"does the right thing". :-)
I also like it because it is a "general solution", easily used for other
directories.... and I feel it's better to have this sort of thing at
"the server level" than at the "application level".
Don Russell
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