LAMP Server HTTP-> HTTPS redirect in .htaccess

Question

I have 2 LAMP servers with the same version of Apache, both running Wordpress. SSL is working on both servers (although the test server uses a cert for a different domain).

On both I have the following .htaccess file (/var/www/html/.htaccess):

# BEGIN WordPress <IfModule mod_rewrite.c> RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [R,L] RewriteBase / RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteRule . /index.php [L] </IfModule> # END WordPress 

The test server redirects to HTTPS correctly, but the production server does not attempt to redirect at all. I can manually browse the production site via HTTPS.

The permissions on the .htaccess file is 755 and owned by apache:apache on both server.

In order to make sure that the redirect on the test site was because of the .htaccess file, I changed it by removing the following:

RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [R,L] 

The redirect on on the test site stopped until I added it back.

Is there something that may have been done on the test site that needs to be done on production?

Answer 1

I found the issue so I guess I jumped the gun on posting this question, but I'll leave it here - maybe it will save somebody some time.

In the /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf file, I had AllowOverride set to None still on the production site for the document root directory.
Here is what it looks like now (with the redirect working):

<Directory "/var/www/html"> # # Possible values for the Options directive are "None", "All", # or any combination of: # Indexes Includes FollowSymLinks SymLinksifOwnerMatch ExecCGI MultiViews # # Note that "MultiViews" must be named *explicitly* --- "Options All" # doesn't give it to you. # # The Options directive is both complicated and important. Please see # http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/core.html#options # for more information. # Options Indexes FollowSymLinks # # AllowOverride controls what directives may be placed in .htaccess files. # It can be "All", "None", or any combination of the keywords: # Options FileInfo AuthConfig Limit # AllowOverride All # # Controls who can get stuff from this server. # Order allow,deny Allow from all </Directory>