I don't understand how to deal with forcing all connections to
www.sierraprogress.org to simply sierraprogress.org , forcing all
connections to my website with https , and using only one certificate per
domain name?
Here's my unique server information:
CentOS 7
Server version: Apache/2.4.41 (codeit)
OpenSSL 1.1.1c
1.) Forcing all connections to www.domainname.com to domainname.comis best
done with a rewrite rule, isn't it? I've found some examples online, but I
don't know if one is better than the others?
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\. [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(?:www\.)?(.+)$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^ https://%1%{REQUEST_URI} [L,NE,R=301]
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^([^.]+)\.sierraprogress\.org$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://sierraprogress.org/$1 [R=301,L]
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^sierraprogress\.org$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^ https://www. sierraprogress.org %{REQUEST_URI} [R=301,L]
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.sierraprogress.org
RewriteRule (.*) https:// sierraprogress.org /$1 [R=301,L]
Since I want ALL websites that this server will host to remove the www AND
be https connections, maybe the first example is best?
Do I just place this code snippet in my httpd.conf file?
2.) Here's my sierraprogress.org.conf file:
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName sierraprogress.org
ServerAlias www.sierraprogress.org
DocumentRoot /var/www/sierraprogress.org/public_html
<Directory /var/www/sierraprogress.org/public_html>
Options -Indexes +FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride All
</Directory>
ErrorLog /var/www/sierraprogress.org/error.log
CustomLog /var/www/sierraprogress.org/requests.log combined
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost *:443>
DocumentRoot /var/www/sierraprogress.org/public_html
Protocols h2 h2c http/1.1
ServerName sierraprogress.org
ServerAlias www.sierraprogress.org
<Directory /var/www/sierraprogress.org/public_html>
Options -Indexes +FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride All
</Directory>
ErrorLog /var/www/sierraprogress.org/error.log
CustomLog /var/www/sierraprogress.org/requests.log combined
SSLEngine on
SSLCertificateFile /etc/httpd/ssl/sierraprogress.crt
SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/httpd/ssl/sierraprogress.key
SSLCipherSuite HIGH:!aNULL:!MD5
</VirtualHost>
The one certificate I'm using ( sierraprogress.crt) works fine for
sierraprogress.org connections but, of course, will NOT work for
www.sierraprogress.org connections because of the domain name mis-match.
I've also tried using a wildcard certificate for *.sierraprogress.org (see
below), but I couldn't get that to work at all.
Suggestions on how to handle these issues?
Thank you for your time and suggestions!
Ed
Certificate Decoder - https://www.sslshopper.com/certificate-decoder.html
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