how do I redirect 80 to 443?

That's simple - your request tells Apache that only the top URL / should get redirected, which is exactly what's happening.

Your redirect needs to be more like:

Redirect /* https://domain.org/

This will redirect any URL to the https site. If you want to redirect all URLs to the equivalent page on the https site (e.g. /some.html -> https://domain.org/some.html) rather than to the top page, then use something like

Redirect ^/(*)$ https://domain.org/$1

This will capture the original URI and append it to the redirect.

I found another way around this that might work for you. If what you want is for all traffic to be funneled into the HTTPS site, but to respect the requested link, try this:

1. Open /etc/apache2/sites/0000 any_80.conf (or equivalent)
2. Find a section enclosed by:
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
</IfModule>
If you don't see such a section, create one.
3. Add the following code exactly as written here:
RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} !^443$
RewriteRule ^.*$ https://%{SERVER NAME}%{REQUESTURI} [L,R]
4. Save and restart Apache.

This will cause any request not coming in on port 443 to be rewritten just as it is, but using SSL instead.

To redirect all http requests to https via Server Admin for OS X Server 10.6.1, do the following:

1. Create a new Site for port 80 (Server Admin>Web>Sites>Add (+))
2. Click Enabled
3. Enter the same host name as the site on port 443, e.g. web.pretendco.com
4. Click the Aliases tab for the port 80 site
5. Delete (the (-)) all URL Aliases and Redirects for the port 80 site
6. Click Add (the (+)) URL Aliases and Redirects for the port 80 site
7. Select Type: RedirectMatch
8. Enter Pattern: (.*)
9. Enter Path: https://<website URL>, e.g. https://web.pretendco.com
10. Click Save

I have not tested this with OS X Server 10.5, but it should be the same.

I had one subdomain redirecting and then I set up the second one.. and it all went buh-bye..

I have one site - main.mydomain.com

My goal today was to setup a redirect of 80 to 443, and as well I wanted to create an easy link to access the webmail. So, I started off by adding a CNAME record ( webmail ) to my DNS records with GoDaddy to point to my server's A hostname for the webmail redirect.

I then went into Server Admin and setup webmail.mydomain.com first. I created a new site, gave it the hostname webmail.mydomain.com, then created a web server alias for it - webmail.mydomain.com - and then added a redirect ( pattern: webmail.mydomain.com & path: https://main.mydomain.com/webmail/ ) Testing this in Safari redirected webmail.mydomain.com to my secure webmail login page as intended.

I then went back to Server Admin to set up the second redirect for the main site 80 to 443- exactly as I did the first redirect. I created another site and gave it the same hostname as the main domain - main.mydomain.com - added a web server alias for it - main.mydomain.com - and then added the redirect ( pattern: main.mydomain.com & path: https://main.mydomain.com). Testing this in Safari, I was unable to load the 443 page. It found nothing. So I retested the first one, and it no longer worked.

What did I do wrong? I can't seem to get this set up. Anyone?

Thanks Hayward this solved it for me!

This is how I got it to work using Server Admin in Snow Leopard Server (10.6.2):

1) start with a working HTTPS website assigned to port 443 - https://myserver.example.com
2) create a website with the same name on port 80 - http://myserver.example.com
3) in Server Admin's "Aliases" panel, remove all of the default aliases - they are not needed.
4) add this redirect: RedirectMatch ^/(.*)$ https://myserver.example.com/$1

This will redirect any request (including subdirectories) for http://myserver.example.com to https://myserver.example.com.

So, http://myserver.example.com/groups will get redirected to https://myserver.example.com/groups.

Sultan of Stream's example will work with wiki, blog, and calendar rewrites as well. However, you will need to disable each individual web service associated with the site on port 80 in addition to removing all of the default aliases.