HTTP to HTTPS redirect fails

Discussion in 'General' started by N3RVE, Mar 28, 2015.

  1. N3RVE

    N3RVE New Member

    I entered my SSL information via the SSL section in ISPConfig and used the following to enforce a HTTPS redirect:
    Code:
    RewriteEngine on
    RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} !^443$
    RewriteRule ^.*$ https://%{SERVER_NAME}%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R] 
    I also tried using a .htaccess file with the content here.

    Content of associated vhost:
    Code:
    <Directory /var/www/arcube.com.ng>
            AllowOverride None
                    Require all denied
            </Directory>
    
    <VirtualHost 45.56.99.63:80>
                        DocumentRoot /var/www/arcube.com.ng/web
               
            ServerName arcube.com.ng
            ServerAlias www.arcube.com.ng
            ServerAdmin [email protected]
    
            ErrorLog /var/log/ispconfig/httpd/arcube.com.ng/error.log
    
    
            <IfModule mod_ssl.c>
            </IfModule>
    
            <Directory /var/www/arcube.com.ng/web>
                    # Clear PHP settings of this website
                    <FilesMatch ".+\.ph(p[345]?|t|tml)$">
                            SetHandler None
                    </FilesMatch>
                    Options +FollowSymLinks
                    AllowOverride All
                                    Require all granted
                            </Directory>
            <Directory /var/www/clients/client1/web5/web>
                    # Clear PHP settings of this website
                    <FilesMatch ".+\.ph(p[345]?|t|tml)$">
                            SetHandler None
                    </FilesMatch>
                    Options +FollowSymLinks
                    AllowOverride All
                                    Require all granted
                            </Directory>
    
    
    
    
            # php as fast-cgi enabled
        # For config options see: http://httpd.apache.org/mod_fcgid/mod/mod_fcgid.html
            <IfModule mod_fcgid.c>
                    IdleTimeout 300
                    ProcessLifeTime 3600
                    # MaxProcessCount 1000
                    DefaultMinClassProcessCount 0
                    DefaultMaxClassProcessCount 100
                    IPCConnectTimeout 3
                    IPCCommTimeout 600
                    BusyTimeout 3600
            </IfModule>
            <Directory /var/www/arcube.com.ng/web>
                    <FilesMatch "\.php[345]?$">
                        SetHandler fcgid-script
                    </FilesMatch>
                    FCGIWrapper /var/www/php-fcgi-scripts/web5/.php-fcgi-starter .php
                    FCGIWrapper /var/www/php-fcgi-scripts/web5/.php-fcgi-starter .php3
                    FCGIWrapper /var/www/php-fcgi-scripts/web5/.php-fcgi-starter .php4
                    FCGIWrapper /var/www/php-fcgi-scripts/web5/.php-fcgi-starter .php5
                    Options +ExecCGI
                    AllowOverride All
                                    Require all granted
                            </Directory>
            <Directory /var/www/clients/client1/web5/web>
                    <FilesMatch "\.php[345]?$">
                        SetHandler fcgid-script
                    </FilesMatch>
                    FCGIWrapper /var/www/php-fcgi-scripts/web5/.php-fcgi-starter .php
                    FCGIWrapper /var/www/php-fcgi-scripts/web5/.php-fcgi-starter .php3
                    FCGIWrapper /var/www/php-fcgi-scripts/web5/.php-fcgi-starter .php4
                    FCGIWrapper /var/www/php-fcgi-scripts/web5/.php-fcgi-starter .php5
                    Options +ExecCGI
                    AllowOverride All
                                    Require all granted
                            </Directory>
    
    
            # add support for apache mpm_itk
            <IfModule mpm_itk_module>
                AssignUserId web5 client1
            </IfModule>
    
            <IfModule mod_dav_fs.c>
            # Do not execute PHP files in webdav directory
                <Directory /var/www/clients/client1/web5/webdav>
                    <ifModule mod_security2.c>
                        SecRuleRemoveById 960015
                        SecRuleRemoveById 960032
                    </ifModule>
                    <FilesMatch "\.ph(p3?|tml)$">
                        SetHandler None
                    </FilesMatch>
                </Directory>
                DavLockDB /var/www/clients/client1/web5/tmp/DavLock
                # DO NOT REMOVE THE COMMENTS!
                # IF YOU REMOVE THEM, WEBDAV WILL NOT WORK ANYMORE!
          # WEBDAV BEGIN
                # WEBDAV END
            </IfModule>
    
    
    </VirtualHost>
    I've also noticed that despite the HTTPS working, the vhost still contains :80 instead of :443. What am I doing wrong?
     
  2. florian030

    florian030 Well-Known Member HowtoForge Supporter

    With Apache you can use
    Code:
    RewriteEngine On
    RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off
    RewriteRule (.*) https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI}
    And don´t forget to enable SSL for this site (and create the certificate).
     
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  3. N3RVE

    N3RVE New Member

    After placing that into the Apache Directives filed in ISPConfig, request to http/https do not work (the page doesn't load). The browser (Google Chrome) returns an error: "This webpage has a redirect loop".
    Removing the code from the Apache Directives field returns the site back to working other with both HTTP and HTTPS, with no redirect.
    This was the same problem I had using the redirect code above. Certificates have been installed from the SSL tab within ISPConfig and work when I manually put HTTPS into the browser.

    Update:
    After deleting the content in the Apache directives field, I switched to the redirect tab and inserted the full URL including https:// as the redirect path and tried both R,L and permanent. Nothing happened with permanent, R,L however caused the same issue with the redirect loop error.
     
    Last edited: Mar 29, 2015
  4. N3RVE

    N3RVE New Member

    It turned out that CloudFlare was responsible for the infinite redirect loop. I resulted to using Page Rules from CloudFlare to force a HTTPS redirect. Thanks for the help :)
     

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