How do you redirect HTTP requests to HTTPS?

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Update to my question:
My original question didn't include all of the complexity of what I'm trying to do.
I have a virtual server with two listening ports, 80 and 443. I have a certificate installed for port 443 and that works fine when I specifically type in https://myserver
I also have a reverse proxy setup for a URI- /myapp -> remoteserver.
I'd like to configure my webserver to do a redirect from /myapp to the URL https:/myserver/myapp
and then have the reverse proxy kick and send me over to my remote server.
Everything works fine if I browse to https://myserver/myapp. I just want for requests from http://myserver/myapp to be turned into https://myserver/myapp before the reverse proxy takes effect.
Any ideas?
Thanks-
Edited by: bisbell on Sep 13, 2010 12:16 PM

Answer 1

It would go into whichever obj.conf file is specified for this virtual server (probably <server>-obj.conf, but double-check your server.xml to be certain).
I tend to process redirects early in the obj.conf. I usually try to have them processed before the other NameTrans statements. Here's how I've done it with other kinds of conditionals:
<Object name=default>
<If $urlhost = "www.foo.baz.com">
NameTrans fn="redirect" from="/" url-prefix="http://foo.baz.com/"
</If>In my case someone had created published a link to my server with a FQDN that was incorrect. Since they had done it in printed material a fix for them was not trivial. To address the problem I created a DNS entry that matched their typo, and created the redirect here to bounce from the bad FQDN to the proper FQDN. You're doing basically the same thing, except you want to redirect accesses to a particular URI that are not SSL enable to the same URL with SSL.
Please note that I haven't checked any of the syntax I gave you in the prior post. I already see one typo (~= should be =~). The variables being evaluated should be checked for correctness too (e.g. security!="true" might in fact be something like "not defined $security").
Check the docs. :)