Topic: Redirecting both lan and web to https

[SimonB27]

No question too simple it says - I hope so. I'm new to Apache. I hope I have an easy-to-solve problem but I can't find a definitive answer on the "proper" way to do it.

My first project that needs me to understand a bit about using Apache2 is an owncloud server. I'd like to force https but I don't understand how to deal with the redirect of http requests on port 80 to port 443. I need to be able to use laptops that will sometimes be connecting through the internet via something.dyndns.org/owncloud and sometimes will be inside my lan where my router will loopback.

I know I could just not forward port 80 requests originating from the internet to my owncloud server but I have ambitions for other projects so I'd like the redirect to work only for the something.dyndns.org/owncloud and not for something.dyndns.org or something.dyndns.org/anything_else and leave port 80 available for other projects.

I get the feeling there is a "proper" way to do this but the whole question of servernames, server aliases and redirects is, I'm afraid, confusing the hell out of me... or do I need to go the RewriteEngine route?

I'd be very grateful for advice from someone for whom presumably this stuff is obvious.

[James Blond]

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