Question

I have two virtual hosts in httpd.conf one for port 443 and one for port 80:

<VirtualHost IPADDRESS:80>
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost IPADDRESS:443>
</VirtualHost>

Now I want to redirect every request to my server to go to https://www.mysite.com/ except for http://www.mysite.com/blog/ I want the blog to be non SSL. Where should I put RewriteRules, in which of the virtualHost directives? And what kind of rule do I need for that?

Answer 1

In the port 80 VirtualHost, a rule will rewrite everything that isn’t the blog to SSL. In the 443 host, it will rewrite blog requests to non-ssl (if you want to force them back to non-ssl)

<VirtualHost IPADDRESS:80>
  RewriteEngine On

  # Rewrite everything except the blog to SSL
  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/blog
  RewriteRule (.*) https://www.example.com/$1 [L,R,QSA]
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost IPADDRESS:443>
  RewriteEngine On

  # Rewrite the blog back to plain http
  # Leave this out if you don't care that https requests to the blog stay
  # on ssl
  RewriteRule ^(blog*) http://www.example.com/$1 [L,R,QSA]
</VirtualHost>