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I have the following statement and it works perfectly to redirect all requests for "www" on :80 to force the browser to the same location on :443

RewriteEngine   on
RewriteCond     %{HTTPS} !=on
RewriteRule     ^/(.*)$ https://www.mydomain.com/$1 [R=301,L]

However, what I want to do is, regardless of what is between https:// and .mydomain.com - in this case the www, but it could be anything, like "www2", or "dev" etc - I want the URL simply converted to it's SSL equivalent.

I'm new to mod_rewrite so is what I'm looking to do even possible given that the subdomain could be any variable length of characters?

Thanks in advance for any help.

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  • See this post for details on this issue.
    – krg
    Oct 7, 2012 at 20:01

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Try:

RewriteEngine   on
RewriteCond     %{HTTPS} !=on
RewriteRule     ^/*(.*)$ https://%{HTTP_HOST}/$1 [R=301,L]
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  • That change keeps the redirect but when I create a new subdomain, in this case, test.mydomain.com the redirect switches to 443 like I want but instead of showing index of test.mydomain.com it redirects to mydomain.com. However, if I remove the requirement rewrite rules for test.mydomain.com:80 I can view test.mydomain.com without any problem. It seems that once the 443 force is used, it pushes all requests to the document root of www.mydomain.com
    – rsmith84
    Oct 7, 2012 at 20:35
  • @RyanS - HTTP_HOST doesn't know anything about "subdomains", it contains the entire name supplied in the URL. That means test.example.com will redirect to test.example.com
    – geocar
    Oct 7, 2012 at 20:59
  • I understand, what I meant to say was that I tried using your solution and when I applied it and restarted Apache, the behavior I mentioned happened but I don't see how it could given that, as you said, HTTP_HOST uses the entire entered URL yet when I tried going to test.mydomain.com the rewrite rule sent me to mydomain.com. Makes no sense.
    – rsmith84
    Oct 7, 2012 at 21:24
  • @RyanS - no it didn't. Enable RewriteLog to convince yourself.
    – geocar
    Oct 8, 2012 at 20:48
  • You were right, I turned on logging and now see this error message: [Mon Oct 08 14:32:51 2012] [warn] default VirtualHost overlap on port 443, the first has precedence
    – rsmith84
    Oct 8, 2012 at 21:21
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By using environment variables provided by Apache mod_rewrite:

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

See http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mod_rewrite.html#rewritecond for more information.

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  • Anyone else have any insights? SO far nothing has worked.
    – rsmith84
    Oct 8, 2012 at 16:24
  • Why? This is actual code from virtual host declaration. Do you have errors or it simply does not work?
    – huksley
    Oct 8, 2012 at 18:41
  • It simply doesn't work; I'm getting no errors If you look below at Peter's answer you'll see I replied with the actual code I used in my host config files for both www:80 and test:80. Thanks for all the help so far.
    – rsmith84
    Oct 8, 2012 at 19:04
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You could use the HTTP_HOST variable in your substitution string:

RewriteEngine   on

RewriteCond     %{HTTPS} !=on
RewriteCond     %{HTTP_HOST} mydomain\.com$
RewriteRule     ^(.*)$ https://%{HTTP_HOST}/$1 [R=301,L]
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  • So far I have had no luck with any of the alternatives. The directives for my www.mydomain.com on :80 are as follows RewriteEngine on RewriteCond %{HTTPS} !=on RewriteRule ^/*(.*)$ https://%{HTTP_HOST}/$1 [R=301,L] I have the exact same entries at the top of the directives for the test.mydomain.com on :80 but with them enabled on the "test" sub-domain everything redirects to mydomain.com/$1. If I remove the rewrite from :80 on "test" then I can view it no problem.
    – rsmith84
    Oct 8, 2012 at 1:43
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After turning on the logging at geocar's advice and doing some research I found the issue to be with a missing statement in /etc/apache2/ports.conf that was causing the overlap on :443. I resolved that and the problem is gone. Thanks to everyone for the insight and help.

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