Redirect http to https return double slashes

Question

My System is Centos 7 and Apache 2.4.6

I need to redirect http to https using Apache httpd.conf, I googled hundreds pages and I found some codes but this is good and not hard coded from DigitalOcean but it return double slash at the end of URL and this is an image for the different redirect results

<VirtualHost IP:80>

   # https/http www -> https non-www

   RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.(.*)$ [NC]
   RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://%1/$1 [R=301,L]

   # http non-www -> https non-www
   RewriteCond %{HTTPS} !=on
   RewriteRule ^/?(.*) https://%{SERVER_NAME}/$1 [R,L]

</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost IP:443>

   # I removed this from 443 and the same result
   # https/http www -> https non-www
   RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.(.*)$ [NC]
   RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://%1/$1 [R=301,L]

</VirtualHost>

Solution

That's because you are grabbing the first slash in (.*):

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://%1/$1 [R=301,L]

This kind of regex is used in per-dir context, where the first slash is not used and does not apply, in virtualhost context first slash is present so you are capturing and adding it to the result with (.*).

So one the most typical and correct way to do it in virtualhost context is adding the slash manually before the capture group:

RewriteRule ^/(.*) https://%1/$1 [R=301,L]

Note: I removed the "$" because when you capture everything it is not necessary to specify "the end".

Comments

[Hady Shaltout]

Thank you pal, Can you give me the RegEx to convert non www to https :// www ??

[ezra-s]

what I do is generate the appropiate virtualhost and redirect from one to the other with a simple Redirect / https://www.example.com/. Remember, simpler options first, and regex by nature is anything but simple :)

[Hady Shaltout]

Ezra-s it doesn't work in the first so I start searching about another solution .. Thanks