static site apache and dynamic/member site django

Question

I have a site for static content, accessible to all that runs on apache. As an adjunct to that, there is a members site that runs on django. I haven't had any issue 'sharing' my .css and making both sides equivalent in appearance, but what I can't quite seem to grok is getting my django site to be django password protected (with the additional caveat that all member material, from the login forward, goes through 443).

I can serve all the pages, I have tried to use mod_rewrite as follows:

<Directory /Library/Webserver/Documents>
.
.
.
</Directory>

WSGIScriptAlias /members /usr/local/django/mysite/apache/django.wsgi 


<Directory /members>
    RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off
    RewriteRule (.*) https://{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [L]
.
.
</Directory>

I have tried every one of a thousand different items in the '/members location above, nothing seems to hit (and yes, RewriteEngine On is included - I can watch the debug come out).

Answer 1

Try:

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

You should be redirecting back to same host the request was made against, not necessarily the actual web server host.

I also don't believe there is a %{URI} variable in mod_rewrite. Supposed to use %{REQUEST_URI}.

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EDIT 1

As per comments, should be:

<Location /members>
    RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off
    RewriteRule (.*) https://{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [L]
.
.
</Location>

or:

<Directory /usr/local/django/mysite/apache>
    RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off
    RewriteRule (.*) https://{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [L]
.
.
</Directory>

So, Location is for URL and Directory is for file system directory.