Re: redirect checkout requests from http to https

This might be of some help though I am not sure
http://www.nabble.com/301-302-redirects-td18925292.html

On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 7:59 PM, Red Tigra <redtigrareg_at_gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I'm almost sure that somebody already solved the question, so I dare to
> ask.
>
> Apache 2.2+SVN+websvn. All configs are inherited from the previous admin;
> I'm a noob in svn world.
>
> Goal: to redirect all "svn checkout" requests from http to https. In other
> words, if user types "svn checkout http://toolssvn/svn/repo", it shoould
> be replaced with "svn checkout https://toolssvn/svn/repo" and commit
> should be successfully finished.
>
> Quotation from my config is below:
>
> ...
> redirectMatch ^/index\.html /websvn/index.php
> RewriteEngine On
> RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off
> RewriteRule (.*) https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI}
> RewriteLog "logs/rewrite.log"
> RewriteLogLevel 3
> ...
>
> <Location /svn>
> DAV svn
> SVNParentPath /svn
> <LimitExcept GET PROPFIND OPTIONS REPORT>
> Deny from All
> </LimitExcept>
> </Location>
>
> <Location /svn>
> DAV svn
> SVNParentPath /svn
> AuthName "Subversion Repository"
> AuthType Basic
> # LDAP_Server sun-ds
> # LDAP_Port 389
> # Base_DN "ou=people,dc=sun,dc=com"
> # UID_Attr uid
>
> LDAP_Server sun-ds-edge
> LDAP_Port 636
> Base_DN "ou=people,dc=sun,dc=com"
> UID_Attr employeenumber
> <LimitExcept GET PROPFIND OPTIONS REPORT>
> Require valid-user
> # Need to reverse the effect of the non-SSL config.
> Allow from all
> </LimitExcept>
> </Location>
>
>
> Browser requests are redirecting right. But checkout returns error:
>
> root@toolssvn-test:/tmp $svn checkout http://localhost/svn/admin
> svn: PROPFIND request failed on '/svn/admin'
> svn: PROPFIND of '/svn/admin': 302 Found (http://localhost)
>
> (svn checkout https://localhost/svn/admin is ok)
>
> In rewrite.log I see:
>
> 127.0.0.1 - - [04/Sep/2008:07:17:22 --0700]
> [localhost/sid#87b98][rid#2475c8/initial] (2) init rewrite engine with
> requested uri /svn/admin
> 127.0.0.1 - - [04/Sep/2008:07:17:22 --0700]
> [localhost/sid#87b98][rid#2475c8/initial] (3) applying pattern '(.*)' to uri
> '/svn/admin'
> 127.0.0.1 - - [04/Sep/2008:07:17:22 --0700]
> [localhost/sid#87b98][rid#2475c8/initial] (2) rewrite /svn/admin ->
> https://localhost/svn/admin
> 127.0.0.1 - - [04/Sep/2008:07:17:22 --0700]
> [localhost/sid#87b98][rid#2475c8/initial] (2) implicitly forcing redirect
> (rc=302) with https://localhost/svn/admin
> 127.0.0.1 - - [04/Sep/2008:07:17:22 --0700]
> [localhost/sid#87b98][rid#2475c8/initial] (1) escaping
> https://localhost/svn/admin for redirect
> 127.0.0.1 - - [04/Sep/2008:07:17:22 --0700]
> [localhost/sid#87b98][rid#2475c8/initial] (1) redirect to
> https://localhost/svn/admin [REDIRECT/302]
>
> I'd appreciate any help there.
>
> Thanks,
> Z.
>
>

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