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title: Apache: Redirect HTTP traffic to HTTPS tags: unix,apache,ssl,https,apache-mod_rewrite

If you want all the HTTP traffic to be rerouted through HTTPS, you need to specify a mod_rewrite rule:

<VirtualHost *:80>
 ServerName  example.com
 RewriteEngine on
 ReWriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} !^443$
 RewriteRule ^/(.*) https://%{HTTP_HOST}/$1 [NC,R=301,L]
</VirtualHost>

This is saying take all traffic going to port 80 that's not on port 443 (yeah...) and rewrite it to a https:// url, ignoring case (NC), sending a moved permanently error message (R=301).

Now specify the vhost entry for HTTPS:

<VirtualHost *:443>
  ServerName  example.com

  SSLEngine on
  
  SSLCertificateFile your_cert.pem
  SSLCertificateKeyFile your_private.key
  
  ...
</VirtualHost>

The above is a normal SSL vhost entry, specifying the certificate and private key for your HTTPS site.