[Techtalk] implementing HTTPS-only sitewide

[Carla Schroder]

On Thursday, September 06, 2012 01:04:19 AM Maria McKinley wrote:
> On 9/6/12 12:31 AM, Wim De Smet wrote:
> > On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 8:35 PM, Maria McKinley <maria at shadlen.org> wrote:
> >> This is approximately what I was going to say. For some reason the
> >> RewriteCon and Rewrite rule are often in .htaccess, but I've never
> >> understood why.
> > 
> > I think it's most likely just because guides and howto's are often
> > written from the perspective of someone using some sort of shared
> > hosting. Arguably it's also a logical place, since you can bundle all
> > your rules there and rewriting rules tend to change every now and
> > then. It also has some advantages if you ever want to move your site
> > to a different server. The more self-contained it is, the easier this
> > exercise becomes.
> > 
> > regards,
> > Wim
> 
> The disadvantage being that they are hidden files, and can be in any
> directory and affect any subdirectory in that directory. So to get a
> picture of how things are being directed in a particular directory, you
> have to look in that directory and every directory above it for these
> hidden files that may or may not be doing something to the directory you
> care about. Which makes getting a good picture of the way things are
> being directed over an entire website a bit of a pain.
> 
> cheers,
> maria


I'm also dealing with the pain of Apache config files complicated by WHM/CPanel, 
which have their own special set of overlapping config files. Gee how I love 
"helpful" GUIs :)

Carla
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