Apache Rewrite rule not working

Question

I am using an AWS Elastic Load Balancer, and have set up the following rule to convert http traffic to https.

/etc/httpd/conf.d/httpd_redirect.conf

 <VirtualHost *:80> RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{HTTP:X-Forwarded-Proto} !https RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} !^ELB-HealthChecker RewriteRule (.*) https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [R,L] </VirtualHost> 

However, when I access my website via its domain (www.thewhozoo.com), I can see the protocol is http and not https.

Any ideas why the rewrite rule is not working?

Thanks

More info

/etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf

... Include conf.d/*.conf Include conf.d/elasticbeanstalk/*.conf ... 

The above is created on deployment by:

.ebextensions/myapp.config

container_commands: 01_setup_apache: command: "cp .ebextensions/enable_mod_deflate.conf /etc/httpd/conf.d/enable_mod_deflate.conf" files: "/etc/httpd/conf.d/httpd_redirect.conf" : mode: "000644" owner: root group: root content: | <VirtualHost *:80> RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{HTTP:X-Forwarded-Proto} !https RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} !^ELB-HealthChecker RewriteRule (.*) https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [R,L] </VirtualHost> 

ELB Listeners

Answer 1

You have a configuration snippet /etc/httpd/conf.d/ssl_rewrite.conf

Typically such snippets get loaded by an Include or IncludeOptional directive

Include conf.d/*.conf 

or

IncludeOptional conf.d/*.conf 

from your main httpd.conf.

The problem is that those snippets only apply to your main configuration and don't apply to any VirtualHost sections...

Either include those settings in the virtual host definition, or load that snippet there:

<VirtualHost *:80> ServerName www.thewhozoo.com Include /etc/httpd/conf.d/ssl_rewrite.conf </VirtualHost> 

Or even better, don't use mod_rewrite and set:

<VirtualHost *:80> ServerName www.thewhozoo.com Redirect "/" "https://www.thewhozoo.com/" </VirtualHost>