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From: Peter Schober <peter.schober AT univie.ac.at>
Date: Wed, 2 May 2007 17:59:04 +0200

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timothy,

thanks for the idea, I might try this on a new archive.

* Timothy Miles-Board <tmb AT ecs.soton.ac.uk> [2007-05-02 13:02]:
> There may be a simpler approach to HTTPS (single repository):
> 
> 1) remove the <VirtualHost *:80> and </VirtualHost> lines from ↵
the
> archives/ARCHIVEID/var/auto-apache.conf file

you'd have to disable generate_apacheconf then ("exit 0;" in the ↵
first
line or something a bit more verbose ;), otherwise changes will be
lost if this is ever run (by mistake, e.g.).
or hack generate_apacheconf itself and remove the vhost there (even
more error prone and easily lost during upgrades).

> 2) include the file directly in your ssl.conf
> 3) replace http with https in the base_url setting of ↵
archives/ARCHIVEID/cfg/cfg.d/20_baseurls.pl (ignore the secure_url and ↵
secure_urlpath settings)
> 4) Add a redirect to your httpd.conf from http://REPOSITORYURL to ↵
https://REPOSITORYURL

while this might work (for simple cases, like you said), I suppose
many will need vhosts to make use of e.g. phpMyAdmin (or something
like that) since eprints always grabs <Location "/">.

regards,
-p.schober

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