RE: QUESTION FROM ADRIAN STOVALL
Hi Adrian,
I assume your problem is as follows:
- You have a normal HTTP site and an SSL site.
- A user in the HTTP site should click on a link and automatically be
redirected to the SSL site.
- The web-page in the HTTP site should *not* contain the explicit SSL
URL (e.g. https://whatever).
- This last requirement is what makes life difficult (by the way, if you
*don't* have that requirement, just explicitly link to https and you
don't need to rewrite!)
Try the following:
(1) Switch on logging; i.e. add the directives marked -->;
RewriteEngine on
--> RewriteLog logs/rewrite_log
--> RewriteLogLevel 9
RewriteRule ...whatever the rule is...
Tail the logfile (i.e. # tail -f rewrite_log) while you try hits and see
what it is doing.
Also check the normal TransferLog.
(3) You need to rewrite a string in the HTTP site to turn it into a URL
which leads to the SSL site. Similarly, in the SSL directory, you need
to rewrite a URL to get back to the HTTP directory.
Look at this example:
(a) in the HTTP VirtualHost;
DocumentRoot /home/banana/html
RewriteRule ^/secure/(.*) https://www.banana.com/$1
(b) in the HTTP HTML docs;
<a href=/secure/credit_card_form.html>This goes to the SSL
VirtualHost</a>
this gets rewritten like:
/secure/credit_card_form.html -->
https://www.banana.com/credit_card_form.html
(c) in the SSL VirtualHost;
DocumentRoot /home/banana/html/secure_stuff
RewriteRule ^/http/(.*) http://www.banana.com/$1
(d) in SSL HTML docs;
<a href=/http/plain_old_file.html>This goes back to good old
HTTP</a>
this gets rewritten like:
/http/plain_old_file.html --> http://www.banana.com/plain_old_file.html
Note that the "http" and "secure" directories don't actually exist.
These are just tokens that the Rewrite engine parses and replaces with
the appropriate http:// or https:// URLs. Also note that the
DocumentRoots are different for the HTTP and SSL sites.
Best of Luck,
Owen Boyle.
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