Redirect HTTP Requests To HTTPS On Apache 2

Introduction

This writeup shows you how to setup Apache 2 to redirect non-secure (http) requests to secure (https) ones.

Pre-requisites

• You have a Vultr Linux instance running Apache 2.
• Your have domain name (e.g example.com) whose DNS A records for “@” and “www” are pointing to the IP of your Vultr machine above.
• Ideally you should also have SSL setup on your instance.

Setup redirect

Make sure Apache’s mod_rewrite module is enabled by running sudo a2enmod rewrite.

Method 1:

Put below snippet in a .htaccess file in your site’s root folder.

RewriteEngine OnRewriteCond %{HTTPS} !=onRewriteRule ^/?(.*) https://%{SERVER_NAME}/$1 [R,L]

Method 2:

Setup the http virtual host (at port 80) to forward to secure virtual host setup instead.

<VirtualHost *:80>    ServerName example.com    ServerAlias example.com www.example.com    Redirect 301 / https://example.com/</VirtualHost><VirtualHost _default_:443>    ServerName example.com    SSLEngine On    #other vhost settings go here (e.g. ssl, logs, site root)</VirtualHost>

Written by Lami Adabonyan

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