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| From | Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | linux.debian.user |
| Subject | Re: converting my local site to be https only access |
| Date | 2017-05-02 22:50 +0200 |
| Message-ID | <tCMUa-3a8-19@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink) |
| References | <tBroJ-AM-1@gated-at.bofh.it> <tCDnP-5nt-7@gated-at.bofh.it> |
| Organization | linux.* mail to news gateway |
On Tuesday 02 May 2017 06:35:19 Jonathan Dowland wrote: > On Fri, Apr 28, 2017 at 11:35:06PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Greetings all; > > > > My web site (see the sig) is local, on this machine, in a pretty > > tight sandbox, but not running https. > > > > Where can I find a tut that is a complete instruction set to have it > > do an auto-redirect to itself, but using the "s" stuff regardless of > > the accessing client as long as the client can handle the https > > stuff this conversion will return to the client? > > Inferring that you are using apache2, a few notes from my observations > of the thread as it currently stands. > > one of the instruction sets you were following was suggesting to use > mod_rewrite. Personally, I think that's overkill. Achieving what you > want is possible using a simple Redirect, which is provided by > mod_rewrite, which is very likely already enabled (but if not, you can > enable it in the same way, via symlink, which you can create via > a2enmod, or by hand). > > We don't know how you have your site set up already, in particular > whether or not you are using VirtualHosts. My advice would be to do so > if you are not, so a "pre-step" would be migrating to them. > > Once using VirtualHosts, you can configure one to bind to port 80, and > another to 443. From memory, it would look something like this > > <VirtualHost *:80> > RedirectMatch permanent ^(.*)$ https://<YOUR SITE ADDRESS>$1 > </VirtualHost> > <VirtualHost *:443> > # configuration for your website (now) lives here > </VirtualHost> > > Substituting <YOUR SITE ADDRESS> appropriately. > Humm, is this sounding like I should open up a fwd to port 443 on this machine in dd-wrt? As it is, I am only NATing port 6309 to it via the NAT menu. I have dd-wrt locked down pretty tightly. No one has come thru it in at least a decade except a friend, and I had to give him the username & pw, twice, once for the router and once to get on into this machine. Right? Thanks Jonathan. > This is all from memory as I haven't used apache2 myself for many > years (and looking back, having since used things like lighttpd and > more recently nginx, the configuration language is much worse; > stockholm syndrome whilst I was a user perhaps?) Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
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Re: converting my local site to be https only access Felix Dietrich <felix.dietrich@sperrhaken.name> - 2017-04-29 10:30 +0200
Re: converting my local site to be https only access Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2017-04-29 15:10 +0200
Re: converting my local site to be https only access Jochen Spieker <ml@well-adjusted.de> - 2017-04-29 20:30 +0200
Re: converting my local site to be https only access Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2017-04-29 20:50 +0200
Re: converting my local site to be https only access Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2017-04-30 23:10 +0200
Re: converting my local site to be https only access Dejan Jocic <jodejka@gmail.com> - 2017-04-30 23:50 +0200
Re: converting my local site to be https only access Eike Lantzsch <zp6cge@gmx.net> - 2017-05-01 00:00 +0200
Re: converting my local site to be https only access davidson@freevolt.org - 2017-05-01 02:20 +0200
Re: converting my local site to be https only access Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2017-05-01 03:00 +0200
Re: converting my local site to be https only access Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2017-05-01 03:40 +0200
Re: converting my local site to be https only access davidson@freevolt.org - 2017-05-01 21:50 +0200
Re: converting my local site to be https only access Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2017-05-01 03:40 +0200
Re: converting my local site to be https only access Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2017-05-01 15:30 +0200
Re: converting my local site to be https only access Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2017-05-01 16:10 +0200
Re: converting my local site to be https only access rhkramer@gmail.com - 2017-05-01 17:20 +0200
Re: converting my local site to be https only access Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2017-05-01 19:00 +0200
Re: converting my local site to be https only access rhkramer@gmail.com - 2017-05-01 21:00 +0200
Re: converting my local site to be https only access rhkramer@gmail.com - 2017-05-01 21:00 +0200
Re: converting my local site to be https only access davidson@freevolt.org - 2017-05-02 01:40 +0200
Re: converting my local site to be https only access Ric Moore <wayward4now@gmail.com> - 2017-05-03 18:40 +0200
Re: converting my local site to be https only access Jonathan Dowland <jmtd@debian.org> - 2017-05-02 12:40 +0200
Re: converting my local site to be https only access <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2017-05-02 13:30 +0200
Re: converting my local site to be https only access Jonathan Dowland <jmtd@debian.org> - 2017-05-02 23:20 +0200
Re: converting my local site to be https only access Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2017-05-02 23:40 +0200
Re: converting my local site to be https only access <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2017-05-03 11:30 +0200
Re: converting my local site to be https only access Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2017-05-03 14:40 +0200
Re: converting my local site to be https only access <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2017-05-03 15:30 +0200
Re: converting my local site to be https only access Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2017-05-02 22:50 +0200
Re: converting my local site to be https only access Jonathan Dowland <jmtd@debian.org> - 2017-05-02 23:20 +0200
Re: converting my local site to be https only access Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2017-05-02 23:50 +0200
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