[ILUG] apache2 mod_rewrite

[Marcus Furlong]

Hi list,

I've been playing around with a .htaccess file and mod_rewrite, but I can't
get it to do what i want. Which is..

[1] http://host redirects to https://host.fqdn.com
[2] https://host redirects to https://host.fqdn.com

The reason I'm trying to do this is that firefox 3 gives an error page now
instead of the certificate warning of firefox 1 or 2, when not accessing
the server by the fqdn. So I'd like to fix this using rewrite rules on the
server before rolling out firefox 3. The firefox 3 error page says:

  Secure Connection Failed
  'host' uses an invalid security certificate.
  The certificate is not valid for any server names.
  (Error code: ssl_error_bad_cert_domain)

My .htaccess contains

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !host.fqdn.com
RewriteRule ^(.*) https://host.fqdn.com%{REQUEST_URI} [R=301]
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off
RewriteRule ^(.*) https://host.fqdn.com%{REQUEST_URI} [R=301,L]

which works for [1] but not for [2]. Is it possible to get the second case
to work?

Marcus.