Advanced rewrite rules

[Merlin2000]

After inserting this into my .htaccess for http://www.domain.com/secure/.htaccess

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT}!^443$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST}!^www\.domain\.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://www.domain.com/secure/$1 [R,L]

I goto http://www.domain.com/secure/ and it takes me to https://www.domain.com/secure/

However, when I go to http://www.domain.com/secure

It redirects me to https://www.domain.com/secure//home/username/public_html/secure

Also, when I goto http://www.domain.com/secure/anotherpage

It takes me to https://www.domain.com/secure/anotherpage
which is correct.

I basically want to make all URLs on the /secure folder to use https instead of http.

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Also, I would like to make a condition, where when the address is http://www.domain.com/secure/another-page-thats-not-secure.php to not rewrite to https

This is just one page that needs to be unsecure.

[claus]

Okay, that was a totally stupid error, sorry about that. The reason for that loop is in the two last rewrite rules - they will need a slash at the end of course, otherwise they just don't add the slash to the URL... duh! Here's the full file again, with the changes:

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#turn on the engine  
RewriteEngine On 
   
#first, correct the www if necessary 
RewriteCond  %{HTTP_HOST}  . 
RewriteCond  %{HTTP_HOST}  !^www\.domain\.com  [NC] 
RewriteRule  ^(.*)$  [domain.com...]   [R=301] 
   
#then, rewrite secure folder 1  
RewriteCond  %{REQUEST_URI}  !^/helpdesk/admin/parser.php  [NC] 
RewriteCond  %{REQUEST_URI}  ^/helpdesk/  [NC] 
RewriteCond  %{SERVER_PORT}  !^443$ 
RewriteRule  ^(.*)$  [domain.com...]   [R=301,L] 
   
#then, rewrite secure folder 2 
RewriteCond  %{REQUEST_URI}  ^/modernbill/  [NC] 
RewriteCond  %{SERVER_PORT}  !^443$ 
RewriteRule  ^(.*)$  [domain.com...]   [R=301,L] 
   
#then, rewrite slashes for secure folder 1 
RewriteCond  %{REQUEST_URI}  ^/helpdesk  [NC] 
RewriteCond  %{REQUEST_URI}  !^/helpdesk/  [NC] 
RewriteRule  ^(.*)$  [domain.com...]   [R=301,L] 
   
#then, rewrite slashes for secure folder 2 
RewriteCond  %{REQUEST_URI}  ^/modernbill  [NC] 
RewriteCond  %{REQUEST_URI}  !^/modernbill/  [NC] 
RewriteRule  ^(.*)$  [domain.com...]   [R=301,L] 
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[Merlin2000]

I updated the htaccess.txt file again to show what I am using.

And it works!

[domain.com...] > [domain.com...]

[domain.com...] > [domain.com...]

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Oh, and thanks for the help claus :)

[claus]

Great, and congrats - i just didn't understand why it kept failing until i spotted that stupid error from msg #31. Sometimes little things makes a lot of difference :)

[Merlin2000]

Ok, one more issue that I just noticed.

FrontPage forms will not work when this is on. The problem occurs with the _vti_bin/ folder.

If I comment out all of the code (except for the RewriteEngine On part) the script still fails.

So basically only when the RewriteEngine is on, it will fail. If I turn it off, it works fine.

Any work around for this?

[claus]

If this is really due to the rewrite engine being turned on then i don't know how to fix it. In that case, this would be something Frontpage-specific, so you might get better help by asking a question in the Microsoft Related [webmasterworld.com] forum.

If, OTOH, it is a conflict of rules, then you could add this condition to the top of all the blocks of rules:

RewriteCond  %{REQUEST_URI}  !^/_vti_bin  [NC] 

Example:

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#then, rewrite secure folder 1  
RewriteCond  %{REQUEST_URI}  !^/_vti_bin  [NC] 
RewriteCond  %{REQUEST_URI}  !^/helpdesk/admin/parser.php  [NC]  
RewriteCond  %{REQUEST_URI}  ^/helpdesk/  [NC]  
RewriteCond  %{SERVER_PORT}  !^443$  
RewriteRule  ^(.*)$  [domain.com...]   [R=301,L] 
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This simply says that the rewrite rule should not work for an URL that starts with "your-domain.com/_vti_bin".

[Merlin2000]

Actually I have verified it is an issue with using RewriteEngine On while running FPSE.

[Merlin2000]

I'll make a new post, as this thread's topic is a bit different. I didn't see a forum for FPSE, only Windows OS.