How to use Apache 2 with HTTPS only?

[Matthew Miller]

On Sun, Jul 30, 2006 at 07:02:36AM -0500, Anthony Messina wrote:
> Matthew Miller wrote:
> > On Sun, Jul 30, 2006 at 07:45:58AM -0300, Vinicius wrote:
> >> How to use Apache 2 with HTTPS only, please?
> >> A snippet of my ssl.conf:
> >> <VirtualHost _default_:443>
> >> SSLEngine on
> >> SSLOptions +StrictRequire
> >> <Directory />
> >>     SSLRequireSSL
> >> </Directory>
> >> </VirtualHost>
> what about having it listen *only* on port 443?

Well, as I mention int eh comment you snipped out of your reply, if you do
that, someone who connects to http://yoursite.example.org would get an
error. That's confusing to non-technical people. So it's generally better to
run on port 80 as well, but redirect all requests.

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