apache2 rewrite rule: delete any path from URL

Question

I'm going crazy with a Rewrite Rule on Apache.

Basically what I want to achieve is to rewrite any url like:

http[s]://www.example.com/something 

to

https://www.example.com 

I have a VHost on apache like the following:

<VirtualHost *:80> ServerName example.com ServerAlias example DocumentRoot /var/www/html/example_courtesy ServerAdmin [email protected] RedirectMatch 404 /\.git RedirectMatch 404 /\.svn <Directory /> Options FollowSymLinks AllowOverride None </Directory> <Directory /var/www/html/example_courtesy> Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews AllowOverride None Require all granted DirectoryIndex index.php indice.htm </Directory> RewriteEngine on RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} !^443$ RewriteRule ^.*$ https://%{SERVER_NAME}%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R] </VirtualHost> <IfModule mod_ssl.c> <VirtualHost *:443> ServerName example.com ServerAlias example DocumentRoot /var/www/html/example_courtesy ServerAdmin [email protected] RedirectMatch 404 /\.git RedirectMatch 404 /\.svn 

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I tried deleting the [L] from the first rule and adding a rewrite rule like the following into *:443 VirtualHost:

 RewriteEngine on RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} !^80$ RewriteRule ^.*$ https://%{SERVER_NAME} [L,R] 

What I receive is a rewrite loop, Firefox tells me "The page isn't redirecting properly".

I did many other tries with rewrite rules but no luck.

I only achieved to rewrite a specific URL like https://www.example.com/specific-path to https://www.example.com with a RedirectMatch, but this is not what I definitely want.

Any suggestions?

I searched here for a similar question but I didn't find a solution to my specific problem.

Answer 1

Your RewriteCond for the *.443 section has an obvious issue with it. HTTPS (typically) runs on port 443 (as the VirtualHost configuration shows) but your rewrite condition says 'If the server port is not 80, redirect to https://...'.

So, hit port 443, ask for content, get told to go to 443 because you're not on 80. That's a loop. RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} !^443$ should work.

Personally, I would rather use RewriteCond %{HTTPS} !=on.