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Forwarding http to https

CorporateFelon

CorporateFelon

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Original poster
Oct 26, 2007
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Boston, MA
I haven't found anything in Server Admin yet, and have yet to read up on the documentation, but I cant seem to find a simple way to set up a site to automatically forward a user to https if they try to connect via http.

My work around is to have a duplicate site set up on port 80 pointing at a directory only containing an .htaccess file that automatically redirects all requests to the https version. This simple solution works quite well, but I'd prefer a more controllable method.

Any one know if what I am trying to accomplish is easily done in the Server Admin?
 
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bartzilla

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Aug 11, 2008
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CorporateFelon said:
I haven't found anything in Server Admin yet, and have yet to read up on the documentation, but I cant seem to find a simple way to set up a site to automatically forward a user to https if they try to connect via http.

My work around is to have a duplicate site set up on port 80 pointing at a directory only containing an .htaccess file that automatically redirects all requests to the https version. This simple solution works quite well, but I'd prefer a more controllable method.

Any one know if what I am trying to accomplish is easily done in the Server Admin?
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A simple way if your users are just hitting a landing page (e.g. they're typing 'www.example.com' into their browser and ending up at "http://www.example.com" where you want them to be at "https://www.example.com/very/secure" is to just have a default document that contains a simple meta redirect. Simple, dirty, not at all "robust" but sometimes its good enough, you know?
 
CANEHDN

CANEHDN

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Dec 12, 2005
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Eagle Mountain, UT
bartzilla said:
A simple way if your users are just hitting a landing page (e.g. they're typing 'www.example.com' into their browser and ending up at "http://www.example.com" where you want them to be at "https://www.example.com/very/secure" is to just have a default document that contains a simple meta redirect. Simple, dirty, not at all "robust" but sometimes its good enough, you know?
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The only downside to this is you would get an infinite loop if you're trying to redirect to the same page. http://www.mydomain.com/home/ to https://www.mydomain.com/home/ the page would continually redirect if using simple html. You'd need a scripting language PHP or something to check the domain to see if it needs to redirect.
 
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ruud

macrumors regular
Jul 1, 2004
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You can do this entirely from within Server Admin.

Set up 2 sites, one on port 80, and one on port 443 with SSL enabled.

On the site on port 80, go to the Aliases tab and in the second pane, add a redirect as follows:
type: redirect
pattern: /
path: https://www.yourdomain.com/
 
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