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forcing Codeigniter HMVC to use SSL – Apache

I have a website build with Codeigniter HMVC. On my local machine using Wamp it runs like it should. I want to upload it to my webserver that has an SSL certificate.

No matter what i try, i cant get the website to run on my webserver. I have tried following this :
How to force ssl in codeigniter?
But none of the given solutions work in my situation.

my .htaccess file looks like this :

Options +FollowSymLinks
Options -Indexes
DirectoryIndex index.php
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond $1 !^(index.php|images|robots.txt)
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php/$1 [L,QSA]

in config.php of codeigniter i have :

$config['base_url'] = 'https://www.example.com/';

my webserver is an ubuntu 16 machine with apache, using an letsencrypt certificate. mod rewrite is enabled, but besides that is a standard configuration.

I have tried redirecting with hooks as mentioned in the link above, but to no avail. I have also tried various .htaccess file configuration but also no result there.

Is there anyone who has this running on their server?

regards,

sander

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  1. 0

    You must add after RewriteEngine on

    <IfModule mod_ssl.c>
    RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off
    RewriteRule .* https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R=301]
</IfModule>
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  2. 0

    Because you say,

    my webserver is an ubuntu 16 machine

    I assume you are not using a shared server from a hosting provider and so you have complete access to Apache’s configuration files. If that is true then you should not use .htaccess files. Read THIS and THIS to learn why.

    I also assume you have a set of Apache “sites-available” files that define <VirtualHost> configs. It is inside those <VirtualHost> blocks where you should be placing the code you currently have in .htaccess.

    To redirect all http requests to https try this as the contents of the “default” site in a “sites-available” configuration file e.g. “000-default.conf”

    <VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerName www.example.com
    ServerAlias example.com
    RedirectMatch 301 (.*) https://www.example.com$1
</VirtualHost>

    What this will do is take any http request and immediately redirect to the https: URL. If you are using some other port besides the typical :80, adjust accordingly.

    As mentioned, you can do the rewriting in a VirtualHost. Here’s an example for the https: config file (maybe named along the lines of “020-example-443.conf”)

    <VirtualHost *:443>
    ServerName www.example.com
    ServerAlias example.com
    DocumentRoot /var/www/whatever
    ServerAdmin [email protected]

    <Directory /var/www/whatever>
        DirectoryIndex index.php
        Options -Indexes +FollowSymLinks
        AllowOverride All
        Require all granted

        RewriteEngine on
        RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
        RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
        RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?/$1 [PT]
    </Directory>

    #   SSL Engine Switch:
    #   Enable/Disable SSL for this virtual host.
    SSLEngine on

    # Certificates delivered by certbot - your's maybe elsewhere
    SSLCertificateFile  /etc/letsencrypt/live/yoursite/fullchain.pem
    SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/letsencrypt/live/yoursite/privkey.pem

    #SSLOptions +FakeBasicAuth +ExportCertData +StrictRequire
    <FilesMatch ".(cgi|shtml|phtml|php)$">
    SSLOptions +StdEnvVars
    </FilesMatch>

    <Directory /usr/lib/cgi-bin>
        SSLOptions +StdEnvVars
    </Directory>
</VirtualHost>

    With these in place, you won’t have to do anything special in CodeIgniter except, as you already do, use the following

    $config['base_url'] = 'https://www.example.com/';
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