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I have SSL configured for a cart directory in my website. I'm having a very difficult time trying to configure SSL for a different directory within the same website. I ask the question on SO, and was hoping it would eventually get migrated here for more help (I don't want to make the same post twice).

Anyway, after awhile I noticed the directory I need SSL on, /admin, is actually accepting both http and https, so now to make my life easier and get this out of the way.. I'm just trying to configure a URL Rewrite for

http://www.shop.com/admin/index.php

to rewrite to

https://www.shop.com/admin/index.php

This is what I have tried, and it is not working:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^https://www.shop.com/admin/index.php$ http://www.shop.com/admin/index.php

How can rewrite the default page for this directory to use https? I know this is probably sloppy, but I don't know what else to do. If you could help me set up ssl legitly for this directory, that would be even better.

ps - The url rewrite docs are complicated!

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Reset to default
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Try this:

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

You may need to replace the $1 with just index.php instead.

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  • Sweet!! It worked, thank you so much. Would mind telling me what [R,L] does?
    – Nick Rolando
    May 31, 2012 at 1:03
  • Yes sure: the R means "redirect" where you could specify R=301 (assumed) or R=302 which has to be done manually. The L if I remember correctly, is for "Symbolic Link" but I could be wrong. I just know they work, so don't remove them.
    – ionFish
    May 31, 2012 at 1:20

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