[ILUG] Rewrite to https for specific directories

[Colm MacCarthaigh]

On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 12:50:26PM +0000, bobb wrote:
> Hey folks, just wanna double check something...
> 
> I'm trying to force a redirect to https for specific directories 
> on the webserver, I have the following in the vhost:
> 
>   RewriteCond           %{REQUEST_URI}  ~bobb/r
>   RewriteCond           %{SERVER_PORT}  !^443$
>   RewriteRule           ^/(.*)?$        https://%{SERVER_NAME}/$1 [L,R]
> 
> Which does indeed appear to redirecto http://server/~bobb/r/foo.html
> to https://server/~bobb/r/foo.html
> 
> Just wondering if this is the best way to go about things...

It will work fine :) You can reduce the number of regular expression
expansions by doing:

RewriteCond	%{SERVER_PORT}  !^443$
RewriteRule 	^/~bobb/r(.*)?$	https://%{SERVER_NAME}/~bobb/r$1 [L,R]

But it 's probably no-odds.

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Colm MacCárthaigh                        Public Key: colm+pgp at stdlib.net