How to use HTTPS for user login sessions

Hi,

I'm working on a new site which includes Discuss forums. I've setup Discuss to use SSO so that access is via MODX user accounts. There may be other user account based areas in the future.

I would like to 'force' the website to served over HTTPS for
- Register page
- Activation page
- Login page and all pages while logged in

From what I've gleaned off internet so far this will require some .htaccess configuration but I haven't found an example that exactly matches my requirements.

Can anyone provide an example and/or give some tips?

Thanks,



System:
- MODx: Revo 2.2.14-pl
- Host: siteground
- cPanel: 11.42.0
- Apache: ... strangely not visible in cPanel

To get you started an example for your virtualhost or .htaccess file could be:

I would be inclined to try something clever with weblinks. Have the non-ssl links for a weblink that points to the ssl page.

While testing this idea, I also found an excellent article on preparing MAMP for handling SSL. Now I can play!

Hm. While the weblink idea does work, it switches the whole site to ssl. Not quite what we want.

I'm looking into some plugins. https://forums.modx.com/thread/14025/how-to-make-a-single-page-in-modx-ssl-secure?page=2#dis-post-77126

The above-linked forum post with the plugin code from Bert Oost's post is working great on localhost. Pretty easy, I created a radio button TV for SSL/No SSL, set to No SSL by default. Now all I have to do is set a page's TV to SSL and it just pops back and forth.

TV name: encryption
Input Type: Radio Options
Input Option Values: SSL==1||No SSL==0
Default Value: 0

Thanks for all the replies. I've got it working with the .htaccess solution suggested by Gibbs.

I tried the RevoSSL plugin and it worked seamlessly. The only snag with it though was that I couldn't use it to force URLs within the forums 'folder' setup by Discuss. So the rewrite rules would make those URLs https only to be pushed back to http by RevoSSL.

Thanks for the help.

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