Two Vhosts Needed?

[Mahngiel]

In order to redirect an HTTP to HTTPS, do I need a vhost for both ports?

 

I have a site setup to listen on port 443 but not 80.  Would this cause rewrites / redirects to not work?

 

Furthermore, can you remove the https: from the URI while maintaining SSL ("pretty URIs") ?

 

HTTPS link works, but HTTP (and lack of protocol) do not.

 

ports.conf

Listen 46.x.x.x:80

<IfModule mod_ssl.c>
    Listen 46.x.x.x:443
</IfModule>

 

httpd.conf

NameVirtualHost www.domain.com:80
NameVirtualHost www.domain.com:443

 

VHost file

<VirtualHost sub.domain.com:443>
        ServerAdmin xxx@gmail.com
        ServerName sub.domain.com
        DocumentRoot /var/www/path

//-- Redacted SSL file info -- //

       RewriteEngine   on
        RewriteCond     %{HTTPS}        !=on
        RewriteCond     %{HTTP_HOST}    !^$
        RewriteCond     %{SERVER_PORT}  !^443$
        RewriteCond     %{HTTP_HOST}    ^sub.domain.com$
        RewriteRule     ^/?(.*)         https://%{SERVER_NAME}%{REQUEST_URI}/$1 [R,L]

        <Directory "/var/www/path">
                AllowOverride All
                Order allow,deny
                Allow from all
        </Directory>

</VirtualHost>

[gizmola]

Yes, SSL is an entirely different protocol than HTTP, and you absolutely must configure your HTTPS site as a seperate vhost.  The webroot can be the same between the sites, but they are completely different hosts and share nothing between them in terms of cookies, state etc.  You can not have one vhost that supports both protocols.

[Mahngiel]

Very good, thanks gizmola.