only ssl access (443) not on port 80 [#20647]

Submitted by moimichel on Tue, 01/03/2012 - 14:22

Hi.

I want to access my website only via https://demo.example.com and not http://demo.example.com How can I disable in virtualmin the access on port 80?

Thanks.

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Submitted by andreychek on Tue, 01/03/2012 - 14:59 Comment #1

One thing you could do is create a .htaccess file in your public_html folder, and put the following in it:

RewriteEngine On 
RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} 80 
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://demo.example.com/$1 [R,L]

That will cause any connections on port 80 to redirect to the secured port 443.