How can I force users to access my page over HTTPS instead of HTTP?

Question

I\'ve got just one page that I want to force to be accessed as an HTTPS page (PHP on Apache). How do I do this without making the whole directory require HTTPS? Or, if you s

Answer 1

The PHP way:

$is_https=false;
if (isset($_SERVER['HTTPS'])) $is_https=$_SERVER['HTTPS'];
if ($is_https !== "on")
{
    header("Location: https://".$_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'].$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']);
    exit(1);
}

The Apache mod_rewrite way:

RewriteCond %{HTTPS} !=on
RewriteRule ^ https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R=301]