RE: Apache and .htaccess

Mike,

You should be okay PTF level wise. I'm pretty sure URL rewriting was working 
properly prior to V5R2 being released.

Does the path /www/logs exist? I don't think that the server will create it 
automatically. Also, if you have several server instances running, you probably 
want to change the path to logs/rewrite.log so it goes in the log directory for 
that instance.

Also, how well do you understand regular expressions? You can find several 
tutorials here: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=regex+tutorial and the 
book "Professional Apache 2.0" also has a tutorial in it.

Finally, here's an example I use to do the opposite of what you want to 
accomplish:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteLog logs/rewrite.log
RewriteLogLevel 0
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !consumersplus\.thomsonlearning\.com
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://%{HTTP_HOST}$1 [R=permanent]

If you change the last line to:

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://%{HTTP_HOST}$1 [R=permanent]

it should do what you want.

What it's doing is when the host name doesn't match 
consumersplus.thomsonlearning.com, it's redirecting to the non-SSL version of 
the URL. Since you should never get that host name on your server, changing the 
last line should do exactly what you want.

Also, you'll want to make sure that you either have two server instances 
running (one on port 80 and the other on port 443) or have virtual hosts (see 
http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/vhosts/name-based.html) set up (one on port 
80, the other on 443) so you don't get into a redirection loop.

Matt

-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Wills [mailto:koldark@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2005 10:53 AM
To: Web Enabling the AS400 / iSeries
Subject: Re: [WEB400] Apache and .htaccess


No, there is not.


On Wed, 5 Jan 2005 00:38:42 -0000, Colin Williams
<colin.williams@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> did the rewrite log get created?
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mike Wills" <koldark@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: "Web Enabling the AS400 / iSeries" <web400@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Tuesday, January 04, 2005 10:15 PM
> Subject: Re: [WEB400] Apache and .htaccess
> 
> > I am on V5R2 I am not 100% sure what PTF level we are on.
> >
> >
> > On Tue, 4 Jan 2005 21:14:03 -0000, Colin Williams
> > <colin.williams@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > Mike
> > >
> > > What version of apache / os are you running?
> > >
> > > RewriteEngine On should switch on mod_rewrite
> > >
> > > and you should be able to see the results in the rewrite log
> > >
> > > cheers
> > > Colin.W
> > >
> > > http://as400blog.blogspot.com
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "Mike Wills" <koldark@xxxxxxxxx>
> > > To: "Web Enabling the AS400 / iSeries" <web400@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Sent: Tuesday, January 04, 2005 7:33 PM
> > > Subject: Re: [WEB400] Apache and .htaccess
> > >
> > > > On Tue, 4 Jan 2005 16:29:43 -0000, Colin Williams
> > > > <colin.williams@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > > > Mike,
> > > > >
> > > > > Try url rewriting
> > > > >
> > > > > RewriteEngine On
> > > > > RewriteLog /wwww/logs/rewrite.log
> > > > > RewriteLogLevel 9
> > > > > RewriteCond %{HTTPS} !=on
> > > > > RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^mysite.com*
> > > > > RewriteRule ^/* https://%{HTTP_HOST}$1 [R,L]
> > > > >
> > > > > Im not sure if that's exactly right, you may have to play with it to
> > > fine
> > > > > tune it
> > > > >
> > > > > The documentation for url rewriting is at
> > > > > http://httpd.apache.org/docs/misc/rewriteguide.html
> > > > >
> > > > > I believe these can also be added to the .htaccess file but ive not
> > > tried it
> > > > > that way myself
> > > > >
> > > > > cheers
> > > > > Colin.W
> > > >
> > > > I will have to do some more looking. That didn't work either. How
> > > > would mod_rewrite get enabled on apache on iSeries?
> > > >
> > > > --
> > > > Mike Wills
> > > > Midrange Programmer/Lawson Administrator
> > > > koldark@xxxxxxxxx