Redirect http to https apache on different port

Question

<VirtualHost *:82>
SSLEngine on
SSLCertificateFile /etc/ssl/certs/cert.pem
DocumentRoot "/var/www/site"
<Directory "/var/www/site">
allow from all
Options -Indexes
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>

This is my virtual host config. Its working ssl on port 82.

My problem is, when i try to get this page with http its return error page like:

Bad Request

Your browser sent a request that this server could not understand.
Reason: You're speaking plain HTTP to an SSL-enabled server port.
Instead use the HTTPS scheme to access this URL, please.
Hint: https://localhost:82/

So, i just want to redirect http to https on port 82. I try to add :

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off
RewriteRule (.*) https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI}

but its not working since it require http first.

How can i do this?

Thank you.

Answer 1

I know that you can redirect 80 to 443 ssl, those are different ports. But in my case i want to serve everything on this port (82) via ssl. Maybe its possible to do it with playing custom error page since its showing an error page when i use http on this port but i don't know how

You can't host both encrypted and plain-text over the same port. If someone connects to the plain-text port say port 80 or 81, then you can forward them to your HTTPS port say 82 in this example. So something like this should do the trick:

# Plain-text rewrite:
<VirtualHost *:81>
DocumentRoot "/var/www/site"
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off
RewriteRule (.*) https://%{HTTP_HOST}:82%{REQUEST_URI}
<Directory "/var/www/site">
allow from all
Options -Indexes
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>

# SSL config
<VirtualHost *:82>
SSLEngine on
SSLCertificateFile /etc/ssl/certs/cert.pem
DocumentRoot "/var/www/site"
<Directory "/var/www/site">
allow from all
Options -Indexes
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>

In this case any user connecting to port 81 would get forwarded to port 82. Anyone connecting to port 82 will be over SSL.