Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1425 mails)

["David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E." <drankinatty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Saturday 02 May 2009 20:10:31 Duaine & Laura Hechler wrote:
> Where do I turn this on ? And how do I verify it's on ?
>
> Please give details.
>
> Thanks, Duaine
>
> --

Duaine,

        First in Yast -> Sysconfig Editor; then to Network -> Apache2; then 
look at 
the loaded modules list. Just modify the list by adding 'rewrite' to the list 
and you will have it enabled. Then here is how I make use of it for rewriting 
urls to force https for any connections that isn't on my lan.

        Basically, you can see within the following httpd.conf.local directory 
designation I begin the rewrite check with <IfModule mod_rewrite.c> which 
just says in English "If mod_rewrite is enabled, then do the following 
tricks"

        Then just turn the rewrite engine on, Set the rewrite base to the root 
/ and 
use regular expression syntaxt to "catch" and "rewrite" the urls the way you 
desire.

        Here we just compare the remote address to my lan address and then set 
the 
conditiond that if it "ain't local", turn than damn fancy stuff on, because 
I'm going to make you use passwords! So it just takes the url and rewrites it 
to access my site via https instead of http so passwords are transferred over 
a secure link.

        There are a bizillion things you can do with mod_rewrite it has been 
likened 
to the swiss army knife of http.

<Directory "/srv/www/family">
        Options +Indexes +FollowSymLinks
        IndexOptions FancyIndexing IconsAreLinks FoldersFirst
        AllowOverride AuthConfig Options FileInfo Limit
        <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
            RewriteEngine On
            RewriteBase /
            RewriteCond %{REMOTE_ADDR} !^192\.168\.6\.
            RewriteCond %{HTTPS} !=on
            RewriteRule .* https://%{SERVER_NAME}%{REQUEST_URI} [R,L]
        </IfModule>
        AuthType Basic
        AuthName "Restricted"
        AuthBasicProvider dbm
        AuthDBMType DB
        AuthDBMUserFile /usr/local/lib/apache2/dcraccess
        Require valid-user
        Order allow,deny
        Allow from 66.69.68.60
        Satisfy Any
        Deny from  4. 24. 60. 62. 
</Directory>

        The apache doc on mod_rewrite is very good.


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