Hi All
I have a website with three hostnames x y and z. x is the main url and I have a valid SSL certificate for it. Basically, I have no problem if a page is accessed through http, however if an https page is requested when a users registers or when a user logs in or over a few https links I want the url to be redirected to from y and z to https://x.

Example

https://y.com/test.php should go to https://x.com/test.php
https://z.com/test.php should go to https://x.com/test.php

Where test.php could be any URL.

In short, any https page requested if it is not going for hostname x it should be redirected to hostname x.

Any help please ?

Thanks

I assume your issue is the certificate error when the page is accessed through one of the other hostnames. In this case, rewriting won't help because the error happens at SSL handshake time which ist before all other request processing in apache.

If you can get certificates for the other hostnames, too, you can install mod_gnutls which supports "server name indication", so you can use name-based virtual hosts for ssl, too.

If not, you can change your web application's logic (maybe define the primary domainname somewhere as a class constant) to always use the primary hostname when linking to a https page.

My assumption is that a redirect wont work since the symptoms you mentioned happens but a rewrite will actually rewrite all the urls in the http/php page and therefore the actual request will be initiated to the valid SSL certificate, I.e. the same way SEO URLs are rewritten you have index.php?x=10?page=login, it gets rewritten to index.php/10/login/