Configuring apache with SSL

Question

I am trying to configure apache with SSL. I am facing 2 issues:

1) If typed www.example.com it doesn't redirect to https://example.com (Though, i have written the rewrite rule).

2)And while running https://example.com it shows unauthorized label with https.

Here is a reference of how my apache configuration file look a like.

<VirtualHost *:443>

  ServerName  example.com
  ServerAlias www.example.com

  RewriteEngine On
  RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.example\.com$ [NC]
  RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://example.com$1 [L,R=301]

  SSLEngine on
  SSLCertificateFile PATH_TO_CERTIFICATE_FILE
  SSLCertificateKeyFile PATH_TO_PERMISSION_KEY_FILE
  SSLCertificateChainFile PATH_TO_GD_BUNDLE_CERTIFICATE_FILE

</VirtualHost>

I have enabled my mod_ssl.

I would highly appreciate if anyone can throw some light on this.

Answer 1

I assume you're looking to redirect http://www.example.com to https://example.com. In order to do that you'll need to have a VirtualHost instance listening on port 80 and put the rewrite rules there.