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To: Steve Price <sprice@hiwaay.net>
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Subject: Re: apache SSL question
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On Mon, 15 May 2000, Steve Price wrote:

> I'm trying to rewrite URLs for a secure area of my website.
> In essence if a user tries to access the following URL
> 
> 	http://www.mymachine.dom/secure/index.html
> 
> then it will be rewritten as this.
> 
> 	https://www.mymachine.dom/secure/index.html
> 
> Here's what I have in apache.conf.
> 
> <IfDefine SSL>
> <Directory /usr/local/share/apache/htdocs/secure>
> RewriteEngine	On
> RewriteCond	%{HTTPS} !=on
> RewriteRule	^(.*)	https://%{HTTP_HOST}/secure/$1	[R]
> </Directory>
> </IfDefine>

  Why don't you just use a Redirect directive in the non-secure section
of the config file?  It is just one line.

  Redirect /secure/ https://mymachine.dom/secure/

is all you need.



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