How to ensure that Apache always serves a single page via HTTPS?

Question

I would like to redirect all connections from htt_p://www.example.com/abc.html to HTTP_S://www.example.com/abc.html . What mod_alias or mod_rewrite commands would work for this? I've tried:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} =off
RewriteRule $abc\.html^ https://www.example.com/abc.html [R]

in both .htaccess and httpd.conf but that doesn't work. It works if the first string in the RewriteRule is anything else (like abz.html) but not if it is abc.html. abc.html is a real file on the server (not another redirect). Options FollowSymlinks is present in the appropriate Directory directive.

Many thanks.

Answer 1

Something along the lines of the following will allow you to redirect non-SSL pages to SSL versions (assuming that you are running SSL on port 443):

RewriteEngine on

# Limited redirects
RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} !^443$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/abc\.html$ [OR,NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/def\.html$ [OR,NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/ghi\.html$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^/(.*)$ https://%{HTTP_HOST}/$1 [R=301,L]

The [OR] flag after the RewriteCond is literally that, "or", which is why the last condition doesn't have it