http to https redirection

[neutrino]

Hello,

I'm currently trying to redirect the url http://mail.server.com to https://mail.server.com

I've tried all the options in ISPCONFIG (no flag, R, L, RL) and none off them actually work, Firefox / IE / Opera, there is no browser that accepts the rewrite rule.

The code produced by ispconfig is the next one :

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^mail.server.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^/(.*)$ https://mail.server.com/$1 [R,L]


What I want to do, is to replace the ISPconfig code with something that works like :

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} !^443$
RewriteRule ^.*$ https://%{SERVER_NAME}%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R]


Problem is, each time I'll perform a change on the site, my code will be erased by the standard ispconfig code.

How can I change this ? I suppose I have to change some master code of ISPconfig, but I don't really like that idea, because it always causes trouble when updating to a new version.

Can a fix be expected in a future version of ISPconfig maybe ?

[till]

Just add the lines:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} !^443$
RewriteRule ^.*$ https://%{SERVER_NAME}%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R]

in the apache directives field of the website settings and click on save.

[neutrino]

That works perfectly well, I forgot that option !

Thanks a lot till

[DaRKNeSS666NL]

Originally Posted by till

Just add the lines:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} !^443$
RewriteRule ^.*$ https://%{SERVER_NAME}%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R]

in the apache directives field of the website settings and click on save.

Does this work for all or must I chance something in those lines?
I want to use https://webmail.mydomain.com all the time somebody uses web-mail.

[Hans]

Does this work for all or must I chance something in those lines?

Yes that works, and also:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off
RewriteRule (.*) https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI}

[DaRKNeSS666NL]

Witch one is the preferred way to do it?

[Eleven Cool]

Is there any chance that the option to make a whole site SSL only can be added to ISPConfig 3 in a future release?

Having this written into the vhost file is not only the "proper" way to do it but also would be a performance gain:

<VirtualHost *:80>
   ServerName www.example.com
   Redirect permanent / https://example.com
</VirtualHost>

[till]

No need to edit or create a vhost file as you can do this from within ispconfig. Go to the sites module, edit the website and go to the options tab and enter the following lines in the apache directives field:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off
RewriteRule (.*) https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI}

and press save.

[Eleven Cool]

That works too.

I wasn't suggesting that anyone modify the vhost directly I'm just making a feature request for a site option that basically says "Hey ISPConfig, I want this entire site to be SSL only".

Having that option would allow ISPConfig to then automatically write that very simple *:80 vhost entry, which not only handles the SSL only part, but also eliminates a full fledged *:80 vhost entry that never gets used but still has to get loaded into memory. This would also eliminate any need for adding any redirects by the user.

Not a crucial feature request or anything, but it would be nice.