htaccess rewrite rule to https let my apps stop working

[Matthias Rebbe]

Hi Tiemo,

we are using the following code in the htaccess to redirect  http:// request (either with or without www) to https://www.multitronic.de <https://www.multitronic.de/>

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^yourdomain.com <http://yourdomain.com/>$ [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.yourdomain.com <http://www.yourdomain.com/>$ [NC]
RewriteRule (.*) https://www.yourdomain.com/$1 <https://www.yourdomain.com/$1> [R=301,L]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^yourdomain.com <http://yourdomain.com/>$ [NC]
RewriteRule (.*) https://www.yourdomain.com/$1 <https://www.yourdomain.com/$1> [R=301,L]


if the sample code is mixed up then you´ll find it also here as text file for download

https://dl.qck.nu//?dl=sample_htaccess.txt <https://dl.qck.nu//?dl=sample_htaccess.txt>


HTH
Matthias


> Am 18.08.2017 um 13:58 schrieb Tiemo Hollmann TB via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com <mailto:use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>>:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I attached a certificate to our domain and started switching our domain /
> web from http to https, because of the security alerts of some browsers
> saying that our site isn't safe. So far so good. Our web hoster recommended
> to put a rewrite rule into the htaccess to redirect all http calls on https.
> So far so good. That works fine with all URLs in a browser.
> 
> BUT all of my LiveCode programs with http:// calls for php programs on my
> server don't work anymore. I get different errors.
> 
> I am not good with what is happening behind the scenes of htaccess rewrite
> rules and have no idea if and what I could do, beside of changing all http
> calls in my LC programs to https. My thinking was, that the rewrite rule
> would just switch each http call to https on the server, but keeps finding
> all html and php files. That works obviously fine with all URLs in a
> browser. But why doesn't my LC program likes that rewriting? The PHP
> programs should be found the same with https and should return the wanted
> value as with http - or not? How is LiveCode affected by this rewrite?
> 
> I can't just change all URLs in all my LC programs from http to https,
> because my customers have lots of old version of my programs out there,
> which are not anymore maintained, which were created with any very old LC
> version I don't know anymore, etc.
> 
> Any light on what is going wrong to my LC URL calls and if there is anything
> I can do is highly appreciated.
> 
> Tiemo
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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