rewriting old https requests

[kpc]

Hi

I have a slight problem and wondered if mod_rewrite could help. At the moment I have two SSL locations on my server, both with their own certs e.g.

https://secure1.myserver.co.uk

&

https://secure2.myserver.co.uk

I want to move the secure2 location so that it comes under secure1 effectively removing that SSL.

The problem occurs when some users will still use the old URL https://secure2.myserver.co.uk, I need to ensure that all users who use that get redirected to https://secure1.myserver.co.uk instead.

The SSL cert for https://secure2.myserver.co.uk won't exist on that server any more, if users try going there they will be redirected to https://secure1.myserver.co.uk and receive a cert error.

I'm guessing this can't be done at the mod_rewrite level since certs operate at the browser level, there's no way getting around not having both SSL certs on the single server. I may have to leave it like this until the new URL is published better.

Thanks. Hope that's clear enough.

[richardk]

I'm guessing this can't be done at the mod_rewrite level since certs operate at the browser level, there's no way getting around not having both SSL certs on the single server.

Yeah. For the browser to connect and mod_rewrite to run the SSL certificate must exist.