[BlueOnyx:26305] Re: HTTPS redirect

[Michael Stauber]

Hi Ken,

> I’m embarrassed to ask about an old 5208R system we have, obviously it 
> is seriously out of date.  So if you ignore me or yell at me, I will 
> understand.

Nah, no yelling. It's high time to upgrade, but we all know how it goes. :o)

> I don’t particularly care what happens when someone types the IP address 
> as the URL, but if they type www.domain.com, I’d like them to get 
> https://www.domain.com just like when they type domain.com.

Yeah, with shared hosting the thing is that when someone goes to the IP 
and there are multiple Vsites on it? They land on the first VirtualHost 
that's configured in Apache for that IP.

For domain name redirects from HTTP to HTTPS a .htaccess is usually the 
simplest option.

However, usage of .htaccess files is not allowed by default in Vsites by 
default, as they can be used to reconfigure Apache and sometimes we 
might not want that siteAdmins can do that.

So first go to "Server Management" / "Network Services" / "Web" and make 
sure that under the grey heading "Options:" you have all checkboxes 
ticked. You can leave "MultiViews" and "SymLinksIfOwnerMatch" unchecked. 
Under "AllowOverride:" tick all checkboxes.

Then create a .htaccess in the /web directory of your Vsite and put the 
following three lines into it:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R=301]

That should do it.

-- 
With best regards

Michael Stauber