Http to Https redirect for subdomains working

[edz]

Here is an easy way to have your subdomain automatically change someone coming in  with HTTP over to HTTPS to have a secure connection.

With CentOS-6 change to the "/etc/httpd/conf.d" directory.  - Then edit your ssl.conf file. - Once the ssl.conf file has been edited, you need to stop and restart the httpd service using the "service httpd restart" command.  - In the example the subdomain is "abc"  the domain is yourdomain.com   - Please note in the example the "crt" file has a bogus hex number.  - You have to get your own "crt" during the SSL registration process.  -  What the example does if someone comes in under port 80 for the subdomain, they are redirected to the HTTPS method. 

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# Change made 2018-03-26 by Edz . . .
<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerName  abc.yourdomain.com
    Redirect / https://abc.yourdomain.com/
</VirtualHost>

# Change made 2018-03-24 by Edz . . .
 <VirtualHost *:443>
        ServerName  abc.yourdomain.com
        ServerAlias   abc.yourdomain.com
SSLEngine on
SSLCertificateFile /etc/pki/tls/certs/3e267fc58f8a1b20.crt
SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/pki/tls/private/yourdomain.key
SSLCACertificateFile /etc/pki/tls/certs/gd_bundle-g2-g1.crt
        DocumentRoot  /var/www/html/abc/
</VirtualHost>

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Enjoy. . . .

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[rd]

Thank you for contributing this solution @edz. Do you have the information on how to handle this issue for those not on CentOS?

[edz · Accepted solution]

Hello Roy,

The information I came across originated from Apache, so it seems logical it should work on other versions / brands of Linux.  

If you have an ssl.conf, make a copy of that file then edited the way I did.  Once done you will have to stop and restart the Apache server.

Then try it out to see if it works.

Here are some clues on restarting Apache:

https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/star-stop-restart-apache2-webserver/

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Here is an easy way to have your subdomain automatically change someone coming in  with HTTP over to HTTPS to have a secure connection.

With CentOS-6 change to the "/etc/httpd/conf.d" directory.  - Then edit your ssl.conf file. - Once the ssl.conf file has been edited, you need to stop and restart the httpd service using the "service httpd restart" command.  - In the example the subdomain is "abc"  the domain is yourdomain.com   - Please note in the example the "crt" file has a bogus hex number.  - You have to get your own "crt" during the SSL registration process.  -  What the example does if someone comes in under port 80 for the subdomain, they are redirected to the HTTPS method.

= = = = = = = = = = Start Example = = = = = = = = = = = = =

# Change made 2018-03-26 by Edz . . .

<VirtualHost *:80>

    ServerName  abc.yourdomain.com

    Redirect / https://abc.yourdomain.com/

</VirtualHost>

# Change made 2018-03-24 by Edz . . .

 <VirtualHost *:443>

        ServerName  abc.yourdomain.com

        ServerAlias   abc.yourdomain.com

SSLEngine on

SSLCertificateFile /etc/pki/tls/certs/3e267fc58f8a1b20.crt

SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/pki/tls/private/yourdomain.key

SSLCACertificateFile /etc/pki/tls/certs/gd_bundle-g2-g1.crt

        DocumentRoot  /var/www/html/abc/

</VirtualHost>

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Enjoy. . . .

[edz]

Hello Roy,

I hope you get to see my reply.

The information I came across came originated from Apache, thus editing the ssl,conf  file, assuming you have one, should work in other types, or brands, of Linux.

Whenever I edit a ".conf" file,  I save a copy of it - before I edit it.

Once the ssl.conf is edited you will have to stop and start Apache to see if the change works.

You can google: "nixcraft stop / start Apache"  for the different ways of restarting Apache.

Best of luck.

Ed.

[VinRao]

Hi, 

Are there instructions to apply SSL for subdomains hosted on AWS whilst DNS is with GoDaddy?