how to force apache-2.x to redirect all traffic to port 443?

[Net Llama!]

On Fri, 12 Dec 2003, Aaron Grewell wrote:
> The other 10% is webmasters who put http instead of https in front of their
> links because they don't know any better.  It sounds like you may not have
> that problem.  I don't know much about tomcat, but perhaps a very minor java
> servlet might generate such a page whenever faced with a request on port 80.
> Are you coding the servlets yourself, or is this a prebuilt app?

I'm not coding them myself, and i don't know java, so that is not
possible.

>
> On Friday 12 December 2003 09:50, Net Llama! wrote:
> > I thought of that, but unfortunately, this is a somewhat funky setup that
> > is using Tomcat, with mod_jk in Apache-2.x.  So there really isn't a
> > docroot where I can plunk down the index.html.  Or i just don't understand
> > tomcat well enough.  At any rate, what's the other 10% of the issue?
> >
> > On Fri, 12 Dec 2003, Aaron Grewell wrote:
> > > The way we usually do it is to create an index.html page in the unsecured
> > > document root that does a 'meta refresh' to the secure document root.
> > > That takes care of 90% of the issue.
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: linux-users-bounces at smtp.linux-sxs.org
> > > [mailto:linux-users-bounces at smtp.linux-sxs.org] On Behalf Of Net Llama!
> > > Sent: Friday, December 12, 2003 8:44 AM
> > > To: linux-users at linux-sxs.org
> > > Subject: how to force apache-2.x to redirect all traffic to port 443?
> > >
> > >
> > > Anyone know how to force apache-2.x to redirect all port 80 traffic to

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