Question

Rewrite Rule with SSL not working.

Hi I have installed new server with Ubuntu 16.04 Installed SSL Enabled rewrite mode

If I enter link as http://exemple.com/contact the page will work fine If I enter same link or redirect to https:// the page gives me 404 error

How to fix this error, looks like redirection only works on http links because if I disable SSL my site works great.

This is the way my sites available conf file looks like:

<VirtualHost *:80> <Directory /var/www/exemple.com> Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews AllowOverride All Order allow,deny allow from all </Directory> DocumentRoot /var/www/exemple.com ServerName www.exemple.com ServerAlias exemple.com </VirtualHost>

<IfModule mod_ssl.c> <VirtualHost *:443>

    ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost
    ServerName exemple.com
    DocumentRoot /var/www/exemple.com

    #   SSL Engine Switch:
    #   Enable/Disable SSL for this virtual host.
    SSLEngine on

    #   A self-signed (snakeoil) certificate can be created by installing
    #   the ssl-cert package. See
    #   /usr/share/doc/apache2.2-common/README.Debian.gz for more info.
    #   If both key and certificate are stored in the same file, only the
    #   SSLCertificateFile directive is needed.
    SSLCertificateFile /etc/apache2/ssl/ftaelectronics.com/XXXXXXXXXXXcrt
    SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/apache2/ssl/ftaelectronics.com/XXXXXXX.key
    SSLCertificateChainFile /etc/apache2/ssl/ftaelectronics.com/XXXXXX.crt

</VirtualHost>

</IfModule>


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Try adding <Directory> directive to your SSL virtual host.

The same one you used for HTTP will do the job:

<Directory /var/www/exemple.com>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
allow from all
</Directory>

So your config will look like:

<VirtualHost *:80>
<Directory /var/www/exemple.com>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
allow from all
</Directory>
DocumentRoot /var/www/exemple.com
ServerName www.exemple.com
ServerAlias exemple.com
</VirtualHost>

<IfModule mod_ssl.c>
<VirtualHost *:443>

    ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost
    ServerName exemple.com
    DocumentRoot /var/www/exemple.com

   <Directory /var/www/exemple.com>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
allow from all
</Directory>

    #   SSL Engine Switch:
    #   Enable/Disable SSL for this virtual host.
    SSLEngine on

    #   A self-signed (snakeoil) certificate can be created by installing
    #   the ssl-cert package. See
    #   /usr/share/doc/apache2.2-common/README.Debian.gz for more info.
    #   If both key and certificate are stored in the same file, only the
    #   SSLCertificateFile directive is needed.
    SSLCertificateFile /etc/apache2/ssl/ftaelectronics.com/XXXXXXXXXXXcrt
    SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/apache2/ssl/ftaelectronics.com/XXXXXXX.key
    SSLCertificateChainFile /etc/apache2/ssl/ftaelectronics.com/XXXXXX.crt
</VirtualHost>

</IfModule>

Save file, exit editor and make sure you restart Apache:

  1. sudo systemctl restart apache2

Try again and hope for best. :)

in my case, I had to remove this entire block of code from my apache conf file

<Location />
RewriteEngine on
# Some rewrite rules in this file were disabled on your HTTPS site,
# because they have the potential to create redirection loops.
# 	RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off
# 	RewriteRule (.*) https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [R]
</Location>

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