How to Redirect from http://mysite.com to https://www.mysite.com on Herok

Dobai-Pataky_BSSSSl · December 1, 2010, 10:46pm

Hello I’m looking to learn how to redirect all non-www (mysite.com) to
https://www.mysite.com

I tried the following:

class ApplicationController < ActionController::Base

before_filter :check_uri

def check_uri
redirect_to request.protocol + “www.” + request.host_with_port +
request.request_uri if !/^www/.match(request.host) if Rails.env ==
‘production’
end

Problem with this is since the SSL cert on Heroku is for www.mysite.com,
and not mysite.com, the browser throws the nasty SSL HTTPS invalid
warning.

Any ideas on how to redirect in a way that avoids the nasty SSL HTTPs
invalid warning?

Thanks

CuriousNewbie · December 2, 2010, 7:26pm

CuriousNewbie,
This is going to be more requests, but I think the easiest way to do
it is probably to redirect traffic from mysite.com to www.mysite.com,
like you’re doing, and then redirect traffic from http: to https:
using something like ssl_requirement. That way, if somebody visits
http://mysite.com/, they’ll be redirected to http://www.mysite.com/
and then redirected again to https://www.mysite.com/.

Tilde E.

CuriousNewbie · December 2, 2010, 7:57pm

On Dec 1, 4:44pm, CuriousNewbie [email protected] wrote:

Any ideas on how to redirect in a way that avoids the nasty SSL HTTPs
invalid warning?

I have never used Heroku, but couldn’t you just use “https://” in the
redirect instead of request.protocol?

CuriousNewbie · December 3, 2010, 3:25am

Hi,

you can try to modify the ssl_requirements the plugin to fit your need.

Warning: I was using it a couple of years ago and my suggestion may be
outdated

trigger the ssl required with ssl_required :action_name in the
controller and modify ensure_proper_protocol to add ‘www’ when
missing:

gist.github.com

https://gist.github.com/etozzato/726486

gistfile1.rb

# Copyright (c) 2005 David Heinemeier Hansson
#
# Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining
# a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the
# "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including
# without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish,
# distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to
# permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to
# the following conditions:
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On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 1:44 PM, CuriousNewbie [email protected]
wrote:

Hello I’m looking to learn how to redirect all non-www (mysite.com) to
https://www.mysite.com

–
Emanuele T.

CuriousNewbie · December 3, 2010, 8:07pm

On Dec 3, 1:54pm, Phillip [email protected] wrote:

This would typically be done by the server (usually Apache)
Agreed, but using Heroku means that it not an option.

CuriousNewbie · December 3, 2010, 7:55pm

This would typically be done by the server (usually Apache).
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/1.3/mod/mod_rewrite.html

CuriousNewbie · December 4, 2010, 7:52am

Please see this

Thanks and regards,
Shyam Mohan
Ruby on rails developer at CRYPSIS http://crypsis.net/ (Gurgaon)
Email : [email protected]
Mobile : +91-971-618-9650
Web : shyam.heroku.com

CuriousNewbie · December 3, 2010, 8:16pm

Is it possible to do something similar to this little gem? Maybe
implemented as Rack middleware.

github.com

atmos/rack-redirect/blob/master/lib/rack-redirect.rb

require 'rack'

module Rack
  module EY
    module Solo
      class DomainRedirect
        attr_accessor :prefix
        def initialize(app, &block)
          @app = app
          @prefix = nil
          yield self if block_given?
        end

        def call(env)
          parts = env['SERVER_NAME'].split('.')
          suffix, chunk, prefix = parts.pop, parts.pop, parts.pop

          if prefix == @prefix
            @app.call(env)
          else

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CuriousNewbie · December 5, 2010, 1:19am

Thanks Shyam, I took at a look at the link but I’m not sure how that
would solve the redirect need? Still haven’t been able to figure this
one out…

CuriousNewbie · December 4, 2010, 7:52am

Hi

Have u seen this…?

Thanks and regards,
Shyam Mohan
Ruby on rails developer at CRYPSIS http://crypsis.net/ (Gurgaon)
Email : [email protected]
Mobile : +91-971-618-9650
Web : shyam.heroku.com

CuriousNewbie · December 7, 2010, 3:44am

Thanks Tim, I tried:

def check_uri
redirect_to “https://www.mysite.com” + request.request_uri if !/
^www/.match(request.host) if Rails.env == ‘production’
end

No luck though, Chrome still shows the SSL error when you load
https://mysite.com
It seems to not being taking check_uri in effect early enough.

Any other approaches or ideas? Heroku wasn’t able to offer any advice
other than buying a wildcard cert $$$$