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I'm currently setting up a server which won't have virtual sites and therefor has its web content in "Default". This of course means, as the Default has HTTPS set up, and OSX server will try to use HTTPS if defined for any sites, that connecting to the website forces the client to connect to HTTPS.
How can I alter or override this?
Mac mini, OS X Server, null
Hey Conn3ct
If using Server 4.0.3 there is a redirect from port 80 to 443 by default. Within the Server app GUI select Websites select Server Website or the Default website and press the edit pencil you'll notice theres a redirects section with 1 redirect configured. Press edit and remove the redirect.
Apache should now serve the site on 80
Although I don't have previous versions of Server to hand i'm pretty sure this was present in them as well (maybe not be default though)
Hope it helps.
Dan
HI Dan - thanks for your reply.
I'm using server 4.3 and I've already removed the redirect from the Default HTTP profile - but http requests are still being redirected to https. So this is configured somewhere and my instinct says either a virtual host config file or somewhere in apache.config.
I'm wondering if the original setting (redirecting http to https) has created a virtual host file somewhere which hasn't been removed or if it's hardcoded into the apache config that any host with HTTPS set up will automagically redirect http to https. If it is hard coded what am I likely to break by changing it?
Ok so If everything is at its defaults, i'm assuming you haven't delved into the conf before, the .conf for the default website is at: /Library/Server/Web/Config/apache2/sites/0000_any_80_.conf
You would need to remove these lines found after </Directory>:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !(^localhost|^127.0.0.1|^::1)
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/netboot/ [NC]
RewriteRule .* https://%{SERVER_NAME}%{REQUEST_URI} [R]
That will only affect the default website and shouldn't effect anything else on the server.
I use terminal and then nano to edit this file but thats personal preference.
Dan
Hi again Dan
thanks for that info I'll give it a try later on and TBH I'm more used to doing this stuff in the terminal too 🙂
Just checked
/Library/Server/Web/Config/apache2/sites/0000_any_80_.conf
and there was no redirect for HTTPS. Accessing the webserver from my current location - it behaves as expected i.e. http is http.
I was checking the web server yesterday from the internal LAN connected to the same router that the server also uplinks through, though it's on a different wired sub net.
It sounds like something else on the network maybe causing http traffic to redirect.
I was checking the web server yesterday from the internal LAN connected to the same router that the server also uplinks through, though it's on a different wired sub net.
From the Internal LAN I would first check to see if there are any rules configured on the device responsible for the separate subnet to redirect http traffic. Then if this is all clear, check to see if there any other devices switches / firewalls etc that the traffic may be routing through. Traceroute may help to see what devices the traffic is hopping through.
Other than that i'm out of ideas.
Dan
Dan, you da' man.
Thanks for your info. It's completely non-intuitive that the Server App would be storing setting files separate from the /etc/apache2 folder many of us are used to. This saved me a bunch of time.
Setting web Default port to HTTP (80) instead of HTTPS(443)
