Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2009 03:29:13 +0100 (CET) From: Alexander Best <alexbestms@math.uni-muenster.de> To: Olivier Nicole <Olivier.Nicole@cs.ait.ac.th>, <alexbestms@math.uni-muenster.de> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org, Steve Bertrand <steve@ibctech.ca> Subject: Re: howto use https in favour of http Message-ID: <permail-20091027022913f0889e8400004137-a_best01@message-id.uni-muenster.de> In-Reply-To: <200910270144.n9R1iDAM037191@banyan.cs.ait.ac.th>
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Olivier Nicole schrieb am 2009-10-27: > Hi, > > i've added the following line to my /etc/hosts: > > permail.uni-muenster.de:25 permail.uni-muenster.de:443 > > so what i want is for freebsd to never use http, but https for that > > address. > > unfortunately hosts doesn't seem to support this syntax. > De3finitely not. man hosts to see the syntax and meaning of the > /etc/hosts file. > > any advice on how to do this? > I am not sure what you want to do. You want to install a web server > that only serves https? then you configure your web server to only > serve https, in Apache configuration you would only have a > <VirtualHost: permail.uni-muenster.de:443> > and none with port 80. > Best regards, > Olivier sorry if i didn't specify my problem in detail. i'm not using a webserver or anything. i'm just a regular user. the point is: i often forget to specify https://... for that specific address in apps like lynx or firefox. that's why the non-ssl version of that site is being loaded. i'd like freebsd to take care of this so even if the app is trying to access the non-ssl version it should in fact be redirected to the ssl version by freebsd. cheers. alex
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