[users@httpd] Re: rewrite + ssl

[Georges Villot <gv...@free.fr>]

Boyle Owen wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: news [mailto:news@sea.gmane.org] On Behalf Of Georges Villot
>> Sent: Wednesday, November 29, 2006 5:50 PM
>> To: users@httpd.apache.org
>> Subject: [users@httpd] rewrite + ssl
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm trying to rewrite all HTTP calls to HTTPS, except for the default 
>> page. So I wrote in the apache config:
>>
>> RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} !^443$
>> RewriteRule ^/$ - [S=1]
> 
> A request like http://server/ will immediately return the "default" page
> (aka, the homepage) if and only if there exists a file in the
> DocumentRoot directory whose name is declared in a "DirectoryIndex"
> directive (or, by default, is "index.html"). If you are using any other
> technique to redirect to a homepage, you will skip this rule and trigger
> the switch to HTTPS. So check that...
> 
>> RewriteRule ^/(.*) https://%{SERVER_NAME}/$1 [L,R]
>>
>> it works, except that the SSL certificate is sent anyway, 
> 
> That sounds contradictory. If "it works" means that the protocol remains
> HTTP, then there can be no HTTPS session and no cert is sent. If the
> session is HTTPS, why do you say "it works"? Maybe describe exactly what
> "it works" means...

Hi Owen,

thank you for your response.
I'm using Mambo to manage the content of my website, and set a dynamic 
web page to be the default page on http://myserver.com/
The URL remains http://myserver.com/, however the certificate is sent.
I found why: there are some dynamic links for all images inside the 
default web page, so those will be accessed using HTTPS according to the 
  RewriteRule rules.

thanks again for your help.
georges.

> 
> Rgds,
> Owen Boyle
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> 
>> what I would 
>> like to avoid.
>>
>> thank you in advance for any help,
>>
>> georges.
>>
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