The situation is: you have an web application or URL that you would like to force your users (or yourself) to use the [tag]secure[/tag] [tag]https[/tag] protocol rather than the unencrypted http protocol. This is easy to do with [tag]Apache[/tag] and [tag].htaccess[/tag].
Create or add to the .htaccess file in the root of the web directory you would like to force redirect for. Add the following lines:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off
RewriteRule (.*) https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI}
This says that if https is off, reload the page at the same location using HTTPS instead.
Tagged: apache, http, http protocol, SSL, web application, web directory
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Thanks, worked a treat. I’d tried lots of RewriteCond using server-port but couldn’t get it to work.
This is just the tip I needed. Thanks!
tks 4 the code
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