Comments on: Force url to use SSL/https

By: Tonje

Tonje — Tue, 26 Oct 2010 00:25:14 +0000

Hi, could any of you great developers show us a way or make some code or add-ins(exstension) that force our local PC browsers like Firefox,Opera,Chrome and IE to use SSL/https on pages like Facebook where SSL/https is possible but not the default options.

I think there are some add-ins for Firefox and Chrome which is not the best options, but for Opera and IE I cant find anthing ???!!!

Thank you in advance

By: Jeff

Jeff — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 13:38:04 +0000

if( $_SERVER['HTTPS'] != “on”) {
causes “PHP Notice: Undefined index: HTTPS…” error.

I tried adding isset and !isset but it does not work. How can this resolved without altering my level of error reporting?

By: harry

harry — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 15:08:02 +0000

Thanks for your positive feedback Gerold, well, if we install dedicated certificate for our domain then I think there’s no need to set redirect for the urls.

By: gerold

gerold — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 22:30:34 +0000

@Harry – it is assumed that SSL is installed on your domain – it could be dedicated, wildcard, shared, etc. What you mean by security issues?

By: Harry

Harry — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 19:20:18 +0000

Hey Gerold ,
I am bit confused, do you mean i can have https url even i dont have SSL installed for my domain ? also what about the security issues ?
Sorry for being noob

Thanks
Harry.

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By: gerold

gerold — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 23:29:49 +0000

@Marius – thank you, i updated the post.

@Mattias – i agree, we can use this RedirectPermanent if we have access to Apache/virtualhost config. Thanks for the addition.

By: Mattias Berge

Mattias Berge — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 10:08:15 +0000

you could also use the RedirectPermanent inside a directive:

Servername secure.foobar.com
RedirectPermanent / https://secure.foobar.com/

By: teelah

teelah — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 14:43:25 +0000

thanks!!!!
I knew this was fairly simple to implement–for a personal site that is.

But all I could ever find thru google was complicated gargles of configs, financial costs, and other headaches. Guess I just wasn’t coming up with the right google query.

This was super easy! Took me 5 minute! thanks again…….

By: marius

marius — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 09:27:08 +0000

Gerold: it is a good policy to wrap such commands inside:
...
as this will prevent the htaccess rules to break the site completely if for some reason the module is not available or disabled.