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I want to accept connections on my Raspberry Pi Apache server. I've found that it works great with "http://raspberrypi.local" but when I type in "https://raspberrypi.local" it fails (not available message).

If I wanted to force HTTP (from HTTPS requests) to the file index.php what would I need to change? Could this be done in the .htaccess file? Or do I need to also make sure I'm listening on port 443, as well as 80?

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closed as off-topic by goldilocks♦ Mar 16 '16 at 12:26

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You would have to have something (i.e. Apache) listening on port 443, since every browser will use that port by default for HTTPS. And since you'll have to set a certificate in order to accept connections in the first place, you probably wouldn't gain much by redirecting HTTPS connections to HTTP after all the SSL handshaking (and self-signed certificate warning in the browser) is out of the way.

You can do this kind of redirect via .htaccess, though, and redirecting HTTP to HTTPS is pretty common. I have a general-purpose file-upload form on my site, and this rule forces it to HTTPS. This could be easily adapted to do the reverse.

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} !=on
RewriteRule ^/?upload.php https://%{SERVER_NAME}/upload.php [R,L]
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