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How to reroute from http to https in Cakephp 3 / 4 hosted on a cpanel of AWS ec2 instance

How to reroute from http to https in Cakephp 3 / 4 hosted on a cpanel of AWS ec2 instance

How to reroute from http to https in Cakephp 3 / 4 hosted on a cpanel of AWS ec2 instance

In cakephp 3 I struggled with this. My solution was to change the first .htaccess file from

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    RewriteEngine on
    RewriteRule    ^$    webroot/    [L]
    RewriteRule    (.*)   webroot/$1    [L]
</IfModule>

TO

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    RewriteEngine on
    RewriteCond %{HTTP:X-Forwarded-Proto} =http
    RewriteRule ^ https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R=302]
    RewriteRule    ^$    webroot/    [L]
    RewriteRule    (.*) webroot/$1    [L]
</IfModule>

Notice the 302, the reason I struggled is that the .htaccess got cached and made testing very difficult, I even went as far as delete all the cakephp code in the index.php in the webroot and just echo out 'test' Once I got it working I changed the 302 to 301 so that the .htaccess can hard cache in the browser. ( To test if values like HTTP:X-Forwarded-Proto exist I var_dump($_SERVER) in the index.php file )

IF you are on a server without HTTP:X-Forwarded-Proto

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    RewriteEngine On 
    RewriteCond %{HTTPS} !=on
    RewriteRule ^ https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R=302]

    RewriteRule    ^$    webroot/    [L]
    RewriteRule    (.*) webroot/$1    [L]
</IfModule>

Published: 20th April 2020 by Gabriel Kolbe

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