Tag: HTTPS

Enable https behind loadbalancers for Contao CMS

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Recently I had the pleasure to setup Contao (https://contao.org/) in the Amazon cloud (AWS – Elastic Beanstalk). Therefore I had to enable HTTPS behind loadbalancers. The problem was, that the AWS-Loadbalancer is the SSL Endpoint / SSL Terminator in an AWS Beanstalk – architecture. Contao didn’t recognize, that it was running under HTTPS and therefore set the wrong […]

Force HTTPS for WordPress Installations

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Just add this snippet to the beginning of your rewrite section of your .htaccess file to force HTTPS: # BEGIN WordPress <IfModule mod_rewrite.c> RewriteEngine On # FORCE HTTPS: RewriteCond %{HTTPS} !=on RewriteRule ^(.*) https://%{SERVER_NAME}/$1 [R,L] … </IfModule> # END WordPress As you can see, I placed it directly under “RewriteEngine On”. Or you can also […]