CentOS - Apr 2008 - redirecting outside connections to https on apache

Hi friends,

There are about 15 applications hosted on different in our
infrastructure mostly running on apache/iis/tomcat. We have a frontend
apache server running on Centos 4.4 64bit which make these
applications accessible to outside world.

For the applications which are running on tomcat we are running
jkmount to make these applications available without mentioning tomcat
ports. For apache/iis applications we are using ProxyPass. The issue
we are facing is that we are not able to make these applications
accessible through https automatically means if the user is not from
within the LAN then the http link should automatically redirected to
https. We already have GoDaddy stamped ssl certificate on this apache
frontend server but we are struggling for rules for outside world.

What is the best way to make these applications accessible to outside
world through https connections only that is if somebody use
http://xx.xx.com/xx to use the application it should be redirected to
https we don't have the requirement for https connections from within
the LAN but definitely for outside connections.

JkMount /team/* team
JkMount /team team

Then we have rules for this in the workers.properties file


ProxyPass /public http://my.testing.com/public
ProxyPassReverse /public https://my.testing.com/public


Please let me know do you need any further inputs


Thanks & Regards

Ankush

Quoting ankush grover <ankushcentos at gmail.com>:
> Hi friends,
>
> There are about 15 applications hosted on different in our
> infrastructure mostly running on apache/iis/tomcat. We have a frontend
> apache server running on Centos 4.4 64bit which make these
> applications accessible to outside world.
>
> For the applications which are running on tomcat we are running
> jkmount to make these applications available without mentioning tomcat
> ports. For apache/iis applications we are using ProxyPass. The issue
> we are facing is that we are not able to make these applications
> accessible through https automatically means if the user is not from
> within the LAN then the http link should automatically redirected to
> https. We already have GoDaddy stamped ssl certificate on this apache
> frontend server but we are struggling for rules for outside world.
>
> What is the best way to make these applications accessible to outside
> world through https connections only that is if somebody use
> http://xx.xx.com/xx to use the application it should be redirected to
> https we don't have the requirement for https connections from within
> the LAN but definitely for outside connections.
>
> JkMount /team/* team
> JkMount /team team
>
> Then we have rules for this in the workers.properties file
>
>
> ProxyPass /public http://my.testing.com/public
> ProxyPassReverse /public https://my.testing.com/public
You can force to ssl by using something like this with mod_rewrite

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://www.domain.com/$1 [R,L]

Details on how to select your condition for this statement is available at:
<http://askapache.info/trunk/mod/mod_rewrite.html#rewritecond>