Redirect http to https

It can be nice to force https by redirect all http-content to it.

This job is basicly done by the webserver itself and therefore it is a job for the administrator, not youphptube.

We don't like to force this, because of decrease possibilitys.

By the way: If you use https, the website-address in your videos/configuration.php needs to begin with https:// too.

CPanel and similiar

You can try the downer apache-.htaccess-solution first.

If this does not work, search in your hosting-menu for a option to enable this. There are various, we can not support all - in case of questions, ask your hoster.

Apache

Apache has two possibilitys: edit the .htaccess-file or change the config from apache itself.

.htaccess

Add those lines to the begin of your .htaccess-file, which is in your youphptube-folder:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} !on
RewriteRule (.*) https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI}

That's it. If you do not find the .htaccess-file, search for a option like "show hidden files".

Redirect www.youphptube.com to youphptube.com

There can be failures in view, when you setup youphptube.com but use www.youphptube.com. You will have to redirect.

If you do so, do not forget to change the url in videos/configuration.php, in this case to "https://youphptube.com".

Add this to the begin of your .htaccess-file:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.youphptube\.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://youphptube.com/$1 [L,R=301]

The source is in german, i did not quickfind another doing the same: https://seo-summary.de/301-redirect/ Untested.

Tested by author.

Apaches config file

Under debian and ubuntu, you can find the config-files under /etc/apache2/conf-enabled/ .

There, edit the config for your needs (for example: replace the url). The example starts with http (:80-section) and ends with the targeted https-connection (:443).

<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerName www.example.com
    Redirect / https://www.example.com/
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost *:443>
    ServerName www.example.com
    # ... SSL configuration goes here
</VirtualHost>

This solution is more proper and eventualy secure but need more expirience and edit than the .htaccess-solution.

Untested by author.

Original-source for both solutions: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4083221/how-to-redirect-all-http-requests-to-https

Nginx

This is a redirect-example for nginx. If you use nginx, some more expirience is good anyway. The config-files are like always in /etc, what's the exact name for nginx can depend.

server {
   listen         80;
   server_name    my.domain.com;
   return         301 https://$server_name$request_uri;
}

server {
   listen         443 ssl;
   server_name    my.domain.com;
   # add Strict-Transport-Security to prevent man in the middle attacks
   add_header Strict-Transport-Security "max-age=31536000" always; 

   [....]
}

This solution is untested, source: https://serverfault.com/questions/67316/in-nginx-how-can-i-rewrite-all-http-requests-to-https-while-maintaining-sub-dom