ssl on phpmyadmin

[rick z]

Hi

I have install ubuntu 7.10 server version and install phpmyadmin using "apt-get install phpmyadmin" How could I get it to force redirect using https instead http? I look on the phpmyadmin website, but I didn't see the phpmyadmin file(s) under /var/www. I think on the ubuntu install it is on other directory.

On all my other site under /var/www/mysite I could manully type https://mysite/ without any error.

Please help...

Thanks.
Rickz

[falko]

What's the output of

ls -la /var/www

?

[rick z]

Here is the results. I am wondering if the install "phpmyadimin on ubuntu" is directed to some other place. What command can I use to find out what's been symbolic link to /var/www ?

root@test:~# ls -la /var/www
total 32
drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 4096 2008-03-03 00:17 .
drwxr-xr-x 15 root root 4096 2008-02-14 00:32 ..
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2008-02-20 00:10 apache2-default
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2008-03-03 00:17 eyeos
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 44 2008-02-19 22:53 info.php
drwxr-xr-x 16 ftpuser www-data 4096 2008-02-21 21:07 joo
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2008-02-28 17:37 ko
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2008-03-02 06:25 webalizer

[thecaoticone]

If you are using a straight Apache configuration ( not ISP ) you can add a rewrite in your site conf file.

If you are using the default conf, add this to your /etc/apache2/sites-available/default

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
<IfModule mod_ssl.c>
<Location /phpmyadmin>
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://mysite.com/phpmyadmin [R]
</Location>
</IfModule>
</IfModule>


Then restart Apache.

[rick z]

Hi thecaoticone,

Thank you for the quick tip. I will give that a try tonight.

So for the installation using 'apt-get install phpmyadmin' it has to be done at the /etc/apache2/sites-available/default directory but not the phpmyadmin directory. You know,... I was going around the phpmyadmin's website & goolging and couldn't find this simple step that you are providing... In the phpmyadmin's website I found something like "$cfg['ForceSSL'] boolean - Whether to force using https while accessing phpMyAdmin" But I couldn’t find the configuration files. Any how… Thank you!

[rick z]

The http://mysite/myphpadmin did not get redirect to https after input the following code.

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
<IfModule mod_ssl.c>
<Location /phpmyadmin>
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://mysite.com/phpmyadmin [R]
</Location>
</IfModule>
</IfModule>


Any suggestion?