Redirect from HTTP to HTTPS and viceversa with Apache ProxyPass - Giuseppe Urso

Redirect from HTTP to HTTPS and viceversa with Apache ProxyPass - Giuseppe Urso

In this post I configure a url redirection from HTTP to HTTPS and viceversa using the Apache mod_proxy and the ProxyPass directive. I assume an environment consisting of two hosts: a Web Server Apache in front of a  Tomcat Applicaton Server. In the following first example the Apache ProxyPass redirects the HTTP requests to the SSL port 8443 of the Tomcat Server. In the second example the Apache Web Server is configured to accept SSL connections, so a self-signed certificate is locally installed and the requests are redirected from HTTPS to the non-ssl url of Tomcat Server.

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