HTTP to HTTPS (SSL) Redirect?

[andersonit]

Anyone have any ideas on how to force web connections to SSL on the server? I can't find any info, so I'm assuming this would be something that would have to be scripted into the login.html? Please let me know if you have any suggestions.
Thanks!

[FTP]

Yes, you are right. Just add the following javascript into the head of the file "webclient/login.html":

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<script>
if(location.href.indexOf('http://') != -1)
{
   location = "https://YourServerIP/login.html";
}
</script>

[andersonit]

One note: the first line needed to be

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<script language="javascript">

for it to work.
Thank you VERY much!

[storm]

If you make that:

if(location.href.indexOf('http://') != -1) {
location = "https:" + location.href.substr(location.href.indexOf('http') +5);
}

it will work for multiple domains.

[FTP]

Thanks for your sharing.

[eordona]

Presumably with this solution you will need to continually update webclient/login.html after every upgrade of the software.

Alternatively you could (should?) look at doing this via the http server configuration.

I do this on linux using apache, by editing the /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf file, example shown below. You will find this at the end of the httpd.conf file:

(uncomment out this line)
NameVirtualHost *:80

(add this section)
<VirtualHost *:80>
DocumentRoot /var/www/html
ServerName http://www.yourservername.com
Redirect 301 / https://www.yourservername.com
</VirtualHost>

... then restart the httpd service.

This solution will redirect traffic regardless of the html file being served -- if traffic comes in via http it immediately gets redirected to https.