Why not redirect the incoming HTTP connections to HTTPS?
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName www.mysite.ca
Redirect permanent / https://www.mysite.com
</VirtualHost>
Good luck!
John
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On Sun, 2019-03-31 at 16:05 +0200, Richard70nl wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I’m trying to figure out how I can give access to documents by combining SSL
> and basic user authentication. The following is from my httpd config:
>
> <Directory "${WEBAPPS_ROOT}/test/user">
> AllowOverride None
> Options None
>
> AuthType Basic
> AuthName "Test User"
> AuthBasicProvider dbd
> AuthDBDUserPWQuery "select human.get_user_password(%s);"
> AuthzDBDQuery "select human.get_user_groups(%s);"
>
> Require ssl
> Require dbd-group user
> </Directory>
>
> The “Require ssl” denies access to the document for normal http:// connections
> which is what I want. But it allows accessing the documents without doing any
> authentication if I do use a https:// connection. My goal is to have an SSL
> connection but still it’s required to authenticate.
>
> If I remove the “Require ssl” then the authentication works as expected but
> then a normal http:// connection is possible also. I want to avoid, for the
> obvious reason, that with basic authentication the password is send
> unencrypted (just the standard base64 encoding according to the HTTP
> specification).
>
> BTW, I though that “Satisfy all” would solve this issue but it does not.
>
> Or is the rewrite trick where http:// connections are redirected to https://
> connections sufficient? I somehow have the idea it’s not but I can’t put my
> finger on that. Any insights on this would also be appreciated.
>
> Any hints would be appreciated.
>
> Cheers,
> Richard
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