[KLUG Members] Rewriting to SSL

[Bruce Smith]

> I want to drive all traffic on a site to use SSL.  But user's will never
> remember to type https://...
> 
> I've done this in the past by simply putting -
> <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
> RewriteEngine on
> RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} !443$
> RewriteRule ^(.*) https://%{SERVER_NAME}/$1 [R,L]
> </IfModule>
> - in the configuration.  And all was well.
> 
> But now I just get a "Error 400  Bad Request!" message whenever I visit
> a http://... URL.
> 
> Going to https://.... works perfectly.


I did something like that a different way.

First I setup http and https to have different server root directories.
The https htdocs was populated with the entire web site, and the http
htdocs directory only contained an index.php file, which did a redirect
to the https site:   <?PHP header("Location: https://site.com/"); ?>

Then if someone went to http://some.site/somedir/somefile.php I set
Apache to redirect back to index.php on non existent URL's:

  ErrorDocument 404 /index.php

(which in turn redirects to the https site)  Works great!  :-)

 - BS