https httaccess index.php

Solved. I had to enable in vhost.conf

 AllowOverride All 

Got another problem. I want to force all connection to use https.

Here is my full httaccess

 <ifmodule mod_rewrite.c=""># Turn on URL rewriting
RewriteEngine On

# If your website begins from a folder e.g localhost/my_project then
# you have to change it to: RewriteBase /my_project/
# If your site begins from the root e.g. example.local/ then
# let it as it is
RewriteBase /

# Protect application and system files from being viewed when the index.php is missing
RewriteCond $1 ^(application|system|private|logs)

# Rewrite to index.php/access_denied/URL
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php/access_denied/$1 [PT,L]

# Allow these directories and files to be displayed directly:
RewriteCond $1 ^(index\.php|robots\.txt|opensearch\.xml|favicon\.ico|public|js|css)

# No rewriting
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ - [PT,L]

# Rewrite to index.php/URL
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php/$1 [PT,L]</ifmodule> 

Here is my vhost.conf

NameVirtualHost 127.0.0.2:443

 <virtualhost 127.0.0.2:443=""># not the real ip
    SSLEngine On
    SSLCertificateFile /etc/httpd/ssl/httpd.pem
    SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/httpd/ssl/httpd.key

    ServerAdmin admin@mysite.com
    ServerName  mysite.com
    ServerAlias www.mysite.com
    ErrorLog    /web/errors/mysite
    DocumentRoot /web/myb/htdocs
    <directory "="" web="" myb="" htdocs"="">Options FollowSymLinks
       AllowOverride All
       Order allow,deny
       Allow from all</directory> -</virtualhost> 

If I access the site using https://mysite.com it works and access over https using ssl

If I enter mysite.com on browser it is redirected to /var/www/html

My little workaround is to put an index.php with the content :

if(empty($_SERVER["HTTPS"])) {
    $newurl = "https://" . $_SERVER["SERVER_NAME"] . $_SERVER["REQUEST_URI"];
    header("Location: $newurl");
    exit();
} 

I tried some .httaccess redirect solutions but didn't work. I prefer not put them here because I was doing copy-paste without understanding them and is posible that some of my .httaccess file content to conflict with redirect rules.

BR

You could add a non-SSL virtual host that redirects visitors to the SSL virtual host. For example:

 <virtualhost *:80="">ServerName domain.com
        ServerAlias www.domain.com
        ServerAdmin you@domain.com

        Redirect permanent / https://www.domain.com/</virtualhost> 

Thanks for reply, I was caught with some urgent matters, just tested and works like a charm.

BR

I create a general vhosts for all my http to https sites…

vhosts

# Redirect Hosts to SSL if they SSL Sites
 <virtualhost *:80="">ServerAdmin     "webmaster at tnet.com"
    DocumentRoot    /www/vhosts/http-redirect
    ServerName      www.domain1.com
    ServerAlias     special.domain2.com
    ServerAlias     www.domain3.com
    ErrorLog        logs/http-redirect.errors
    CustomLog       logs/http-redirect.combined combined</virtualhost> 

.htaccess

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off
RewriteRule (.*) https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI}

Might not be the best way, but it was a quick and dirty way that I just used when I got a wildcard SSL and started moving a number of sites. Gives me a log of who is hitting the http sites so that I can update a page if it has an old link.