[cobalt-users] Forcing SSL for one directory on site

[Timothy Perkins <tperkins@xxxxxxxxx>]

After a great deal of research, I found answers that worked for me.

We want to require that users from the internet access the files
in a particular directory on our site only by https.  In other words,
they cannot use http: to get access.

Carrie Bartkowiak was correct in that the file that needs to be
altered is httpd.conf.

On our RAQ4 the file is located  /etc/httpd/conf.

After su to root and opening the httpd.conf in pico, I made
the following changes after moving down past all other entries
in the file:

<Directory /home/sites/site1/web/nameofdirectory>
RewriteEngine                on
RewriteCond                   %{HTTPS} !on
RewriteRule                    .* - [F]
</Directory>

You need to reboot the server.