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Force HTTPS on .htaccess but production only

I was looking for a piece of code that will force https://

. I found this:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} !=on
RewriteRule ^ https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R=301]

The problem is when I want to work locally, so a url like "localhost" or "example.dev" tries to redirect to https://localhost

(it doesn't work).

How to solve this?

(to sum it all up, I want the snippet above to only work when I use it when building eg example.com).

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I want the snippet above to only work when I use it when creating, for example example.com

)

You can restrict your rule to targeting only example.com

with a rewrite condition:



RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www\.)?example\.com$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} !=on
RewriteRule ^ https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [L,NE,R=301]
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This is somewhat advanced, but you can try to put your servers in a file called servers.txt

RewriteEngine on
RewriteMap lb rnd:servers.txt
RewriteRule ^/(.*) http://${lb:servers}/$1 [P,L]
serverlist.txt will contain a list of the servers:

## serverlist.txt file con
servers localhost.example.com|server1.example.com


The above answer is good enough with local and production differences in mod rewrite behavior. I would .htaccess in git or subversion (which you ever use) in such a case.

This is mainly for load balancing, but you can apply this in your engine.

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For Apache, put your rules in a block <IfModule mod_ssl.c></IfModule>

and disable the ssl module on your local server.

<IfModule mod_ssl.c>
  RewriteEngine On
  RewriteCond %{HTTPS} !=on
  RewriteRule ^ https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R=301]
</IfModule>
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