Apache Redirect TO IP Address (non-URL)

Question

I've been trying to redirect web traffic from HTTP to HTTPS by adding the line to the httpd.conf file:

Redirect permanent / https://100.100.100.100

but to no avail. The browser response is Firefox has detected that the server is redirecting the request for this address in a way that will never complete.

I understand that it works for domain names but my server doesn't use one. Is there any way around this/what am I doing wrong.

Solution 1

I suspect that your Redirect line is in a part of the config file that affects both the SSL and non-SSL parts. Therefore, even when you request the SSL version you still get a redirect to the SSL version.

If you have a part of the config file that is for non-SSL only, move the Redirect there. If not, convert it to a RewriteRule and use a RewriteCond in front of it like this:

RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off
RewriteRule / https://100.100.100.100/ [R=301]

Solution 2

Apache has a special page titled "When not to use mod_rewrite"

Follow their examples

To redirect http URLs to https, do the following:

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

<VirtualHost *:443>
    ServerName www.example.com
    # ... SSL configuration goes here
</VirtualHost >

Comments

[Mathias R. Jessen]

Have you configured Apache to listen on port 443 and referenced an SSL certificate? Please post the host configuration from httpd.conf

[Ladadadada]

One of the problems with using a permanent redirect is that Firefox will cache it. (Maybe not the redirect delivered over SSL but definitely the one delivered over non-SSL.) Even once you fix this problem, Firefox will continue to give you that error message until you clear that part of its cache. Use curl -I http://100.100.100.100 to check what response code you get back without having to worry about caching.

[wonderswan]

@JudasIscariot1651 Yes SSL certificate is installed and when I enter 'https://' 100.100.100.100' in browser it works no problem. I want 'http://' 100.100.100.100 to redirect to https://...