HTTPS redirect

[manicleek]

I'm trying to force https on an admin area of a site, my current htaccess file looks like this:

RewriteCond %{HTTPS} !=on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} admin
RedirectPermanent ^(.*)$ https://www.example.com/admin/$1 [R=301,NC,L]

but this puts it into a loop and I end up with something like

https://www.example.com/admin/admin/...dmin/admin/etc...

thanks in advance

[dklynn]

mani,

{HTTPS} will be null and not really available to test if the request is not in https protocol. That's why I recommend (and use) {SERVER_PORT} (80 for http, 443 for https) as shown in my signature's tutorial.

Further, admin could be anywhere in your mod_rewrite so that's probably not acceptable as a condition.

Finally, Attaching a RedirectPermanent to a RewriteCond won't work as mod_alias take precedence over mod_rewrite (and works separately).

Give this a try:

RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} ^80$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} 
RewriteRule ^admin/(.*)$ https://www.example.com/admin/$1 [R=301,QSA,L]

Regards,

DK