Forward http to https on a folder in MAMP

Question

So I have created an SSL key and a certificate for my website. I was able to forward every page of my website to HTTPS by using the following code in my httpd-vhosts.conf:

RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{HTTPS} !=on RewriteRule (.*) https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI}

That works fine for every page, but I would like to be able to forward http to https only on my Account page. I tried this code in my https-vhosts.conf:

<VirtualHost *:80>
DocumentRoot "/Applications/MAMP/htdocs/Website/Account"
ServerName example.com
ServerAlias www.example.com/Account
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} !=on
RewriteRule (.*) https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI}

</VirtualHost>
# SSL Configuration
<VirtualHost *:443>
      DocumentRoot "/Applications/MAMP/htdocs/Website/Account"
      ServerName example.com
      ServerAlias www.example.com/Account
      SSLEngine on
      SSLCertificateFile /Applications/MAMP/conf/apache/server.crt
      SSLCertificateKeyFile /Applications/MAMP/conf/apache/server.key

</VirtualHost>

It does not redirect to https, it just stays the standard http. My Certificate is correct so that is not the problem.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

Add a second condition to your rewriting, so that it only gets applied then that condition is true. This also allows you to extract the required part of the request:

# http Configuration
<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerName example.com
    ServerAlias www.example.com
    RewriteEngine On
    RewriteCond %{HTTPS} !=on
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/Account
    RewriteRule (.*) https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R=301]
    DocumentRoot "/Applications/MAMP/htdocs/Website"
    <Directory /Applications/MAMP/htdocs/Website>
        [...]
    </Directory>
</VirtualHost>

# SSL Configuration
<VirtualHost *:443>
    ServerName example.com
    ServerAlias www.example.com
    SSLEngine on
    SSLCertificateFile /Applications/MAMP/conf/apache/server.crt
    SSLCertificateKeyFile /Applications/MAMP/conf/apache/server.key
    DocumentRoot "/Applications/MAMP/htdocs/Website"
    <Directory /Applications/MAMP/htdocs/Website>
        [...]
    </Directory>
</VirtualHost>