How can I redirect all pages to https, using .htaccess, with exceptions?

Question

I have used htaccess to force all pages to re route to https using...

RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /

RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} 80
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://ourdomain.com/$1 [R,L]

Is there any way I can reverse that rule for ourdomain.com/videos && ourdomain.com/blog making sure that these pages are forced to drop the https and use http?

Answer 1

You're already part way there with your use of RewriteCond to restrict the rewrites to requests on port 80.

You do not want to rewrite requests on port 80 for /videos and /blog , so:

RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} 80
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/videos
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/blog
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://ourdomain.com/$1 [R,L]

And you want to rewrite requests for these URLs on port (presumably) 443:

RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} 443
RewriteRule ^/((videos|blog)/.*) http://ourdomain.com/$1 [R,L]

Answer 2

Try

RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /

RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} 443
RewriteRule ^blog/?(.*) http://ourdomain.com/blog/$1 [R,L]

RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} 443
RewriteRule ^videos/?(.*) http://ourdomain.com/videos/$1 [R,L]

RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} 80
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/videos
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/blog
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://ourdomain.com/$1 [R,L]

Answer 3

one more solution. I hope it may help.

RewriteEngine on
Rewritebase /


RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} !^443$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} =off [OR]
RewriteCond %{ENV:HTTPS} =off
RewriteRule ^(/(.*))?$ https://%{HTTP_HOST}/$1 [R=301,L]