http to https

[stevejac]

I just installed a SSL cert. on my server. with a subdomain, secure.c2chosting.net. Now when What I would like to ask is, how do I got about setting up the server so that everytime someone types in my domail it goes to the sercur domain name? would I redirect my domain to the sub domain then upload the website there?
Thanks for your input
SJ

[anup123]

See if the following in htaccess (or in httpd.conf) works:

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} !=443
RewriteRule ^ https://yourdomain.tld%{REQUEST_URI} [NS,R,L]

Perhaps someone could add how to do this redirction from domain.tld to sub.domain.tld
Anup

[dan_c]

here is a script I came across written in JAVASCRIPT. It will automatically make the site encrypted (https), even if the user specifically types in http://

<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript">
if (location.protocol != 'https:'){
window.location= 'https://' + location.host + location.pathname + location.search
}
</SCRIPT>

[anup123]

Problem with java script is that it would break if users disable java script in browser for some reason or the other.

Anup

[dan_c]

true. perhaps it could be written in PHP or some other server-side scripture.

[truehustercom]

Here is a way to do it by php. You might want to use $_SERVER["REQUEST_URI"]
if you want the user to be redirected to the secure page they where trying to find.

<?

 if ($_SERVER["SERVER_PORT"] != '443')
    {
       //$redirect = "https://secure.c2chosting.net/".$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'];     
       $redirect = "https://secure.c2chosting.net";
      
     header ("Location: $redirect");
    }
?>

[dan_c]

wow that is excellent.

One minor edit is when using REQUEST_URI instead of
$redirect = "https://www.yourdomain.com/".$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'];
use:
$redirect = "https://www.yourdomain.com".$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'];

note that I removed the "/" at the end of your domain address, otherwise your redirected url will return as somethin like https://www.yourdomain.com//yourpage.php

[wa4fat]

You may wish to consider using a simple .htaccess redirect statement.

In the root of your website, you'd place the following withing an .htaccess file:

redirect /index.html https://yourdomainname.com

This would globally redirect folks entering your index.html page (substitute your flavor .htm etc., if different) to the secure https:// version of your site.

All the best -- Bill

[skaboobie]

Hi. I'm a cPanel newbie, and to some extent, an Apache newbie as well. I am the site administrator for cPanel. That is, I have access to WHM.

Through WHM, I created a site (virtual host). I can log in as the admin for the virtual host via https.
That is, I go to https://example.com:2083. (No, the FQDN is not example.com. I'm not that much of a newbie.) Everything works fine there. I succesfully set up a site at the virtual host, and I can view it via http just fine. However, I would also like to go to the same site with https. The problem is that when I go to https://example.com via Mozilla/Firefox, I get the error, "The connection to example.com has terminated unexpectedly. Some data may have been transferred.". If I use MSIE, I get a "Cannot find server" error.

Via cPanel, I went into the "SSL Manager" and I generated an SSL key and an SSL certificate. Is there something else I'm missing?

My guess is that it is the firewall, since I need to listen on port 443. Does cPanel have a tool to configure the firewall, or is it safe to just edit the iptables rules like I would on a Linux workstation? (BTW, I'm running Red Hat Enterprise 3 on the server.)

Is there some apache configuration I would need as well?