By maltesepiero
Hi!! I activated 5$ plan vps yesterday, I’m quite impressed. I’m developing a management application, that have to run throught ssl. I created this virtualhost (following the guide on digital ocean): <VirtualHost *:443> ServerAdmin maltesepiero@gmail.com ServerName emmepiesse.no-ip.org:443 ServerAlias www.emmepiesse.no-ip.org:443
DirectoryIndex index.html
DocumentRoot /var/www/mps
# CGI Directory
ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /var/www/mps/cgi-bin/
<Location /cgi-bin>
Options +ExecCGI
</Location>
SSLEngine on
SSLCertificateFile /etc/apache2/ssl/apache.crt
SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/apache2/ssl/apache.key
</VirtualHost>
and it works well, but I’ll have issue in redirecting http traffic. I tried with: <VirtualHost *:80> ServerName emmepiesse.no-ip.org Redirect / https://emmepiesse.no-ip.org:443 </VirtualHost> but no luck. Ideas? Thank you in advance
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The issue with the redirect is that you won’t be able to preserve for the REQUEST_URI so if a user goes to http://emmepiesse.no-ip.org/blog they will end up on https://emmepiesse.no-ip.org - as for why the redirect isn’t working you may want to update it to: <br> <br>Redirect permanent / https://emmepiesse.no-ip.org:443 <br> <br>Alternatively you can use .htaccess + mod_rewrite to setup a rewrite rule as follows which would redirect requests and also preserve the requested path/document: <br> <br>RewriteEngine On <br>RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off <br>RewriteRule (.*) https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} <br> <br>You can also replace HTTP_HOST with SERVER_HOST, HTTP_HOST refers to what the user provided in his URL when using his browser, while the SERVER_HOST refers to the Server Name that was defined in the config file for which the domain/IP matched in your configuration.
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