Redirect and SSL certificate

[CloudWatcher]

Hi. I am a Web site manager, but not a server admin. We recently moved our main Web site (mysite.com) to an outside host; it had been hosted on an in-house server managed by our IT department, but with our recent migration to Joomla!, the vendor that developed the site outsourced the hosting. The DNS entry is on an in-house DNS server, because the DNS is registered to our server, according to IT.

We have another domain hosted in-house, which we have used primarily for secure forms; there is a secure certificate on that domain that will expire next month. I asked our network sysadmin to forward requests for mysecuresite.com to mysite.com, so site visitors will see the new site, but that caused the php form handler (formmail.php from tectite.com) to stop working correctly since the server thinks the secure certificate is on mysite.com.

Tech support at the host first said to install the secure certificate on mysite.com, but the browsers complain, saying the certificate doesn't belong to the domain, and I'm getting 404 errors when I try to display the form - it's looking on mysite.com/form.html instead of mysecuresite.com/form.html.

Now tech support says to do an URL rewrite to redirect non-SSL requests from mysecuresite.com to mysite.com. Can anyone help me with this? Or, is this the right approach?

Please let me know if you need more information. Thanks.

 

[lgarner]

http://borkweb.com/story/apache-rewrite-cheatsheet#_example-rules_1

has some examples.

This line should do what you want:
RewriteRule ^(.*)$

http://www.mysite.com/$1

[R=301,L]

As for the certificate, you'll have to either get a new one for mysite.com or set mysecuresite.com's DNS to point to the new host.

 

[CloudWatcher]

Thanks, I appreciate the help, and the link. I'm going to the site to translate what that rewrite rule does.