Re: converting my local site to be https only access
On 30-04-17, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Saturday 29 April 2017 14:49:04 Gene Heskett wrote:
>
> > On Saturday 29 April 2017 14:21:27 Jochen Spieker wrote:
> > > Gene Heskett:
> > > > On Saturday 29 April 2017 04:05:01 Felix Dietrich wrote:
> > > >> Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> writes:
> > > >>> Where can I find a tut that is a complete instruction set to
> > > >>> have it do an auto-redirect to itself, but using the "s" stuff
> > > >>> regardless of the accessing client as long as the client can
> > > >>> handle the https stuff this conversion will return to the
> > > >>> client?
> > >
> > > What you want to do requires that you understand the basics of
> > > Apache's configuration mechanism. You should really start with that.
> > >
> > > http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/en/getting-started.html
> > > http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/en/bind.html
> > > http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/en/configuring.html
> > > http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/en/urlmapping.html
> > > http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/en/vhosts/
> > >
> I don't have 2.4, 2.2 here on wheezy.
>
> Looking in the docs/2.2/envvars reference and trying some of the commands
> I find I apparently must specify the port # somehow. apache2ctl cannot
> connect on port 80. It apparently uses /etc/alternatives/www-browser,
> which is a softlink to /usrt/bin/lynx, and guess what?
>
> lynx support at lynx.isc.org has been deleted. And it won't work without
> talking to isc.org first. Even after being re-installed.
>
> So A: file a bug against lynx, best to remove it as its apparently been
> EOL'd by isc.org
>
> And B: what can I change that softlink in /etc/alternatives to so
> apache2ctl will work against localhost:6309 ?
For changing those softlinks in /etc/alternatives best would be to use
update-alternatives. As root, or with sudo, whatever you prefer. As to
what would be best in your case, I do not know. Other terminal browsers
you could use are Links and w3m.
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