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>
