lighttpd redirect https to http

Question

After two days of searching, I decided to ask this question here:

I have extremely limited lighttpd installed on my iDevice, and I need to redirect all received https traffic to http. I don't have mod_rewrite nor do I have ssl compiled in.

I came up with this, but it doesn't seem to work:

$SERVER["socket"] == ":443" {
 $HTTP["host"] =~ ".*" {
  url.redirect = ( ".*" => "http://%1" )
 }
}

Also, for lighttpd to get the port 443 traffic, do I need to set server.port to 443, or can I just leave it = 80 in the config file?

Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

If you're not using SSL, then your version of lighttpd will be unable to respond to an incoming HTTPS request as it will be unable to decode the response (which will be SSL encrypted by the client's browser).

It will also be unable to reply over HTTPS with the Redirect reply.

You'll need to compile Lighttpd with SSL support, or put at least something in there on port 443 which can decrypt SSL (perhaps openssl with the s_server option in HTTPS mode).