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Redirect admin area requests to HTTPS

Create a redirect rule to redirect requests for the administration area of store.example.com to HTTPS, keeping the original path and query string.

This example dynamic redirect for zone example.com will redirect requests for the administration area of a specific subdomain (store.example.com) to HTTPS, keeping the original path and query string.

Example

When incoming requests match

  • Field: SSL/HTTPS
  • Value: Off

And

  • Field: Hostname
  • Operator: equals
  • Value: store.example.com

And

  • Field: URI Path
  • Operator: starts with
  • Value: /admin

If you are using the Expression Editor, enter the following expression:
(not ssl and http.host eq "store.example.com" and starts_with(http.request.uri.path, "/admin"))

Then

  • Type: Dynamic
  • Expression: concat("https://", http.host, http.request.uri.path)
  • Status code: 301
  • Preserve query string: Enabled

The rule includes SSL/HTTPS: Off (not ssl in the rule expression) to avoid redirect loops.

For example, the redirect rule would perform the following redirects:

Request URLTarget URLStatus code
http://store.example.com/admin/products/https://store.example.com/admin/products/301
https://store.example.com/admin/products/(unchanged)n/a
http://store.example.com/admin/?logged_out=truehttps://store.example.com/admin/?logged_out=true301
http://store.example.com/?all_items=true(unchanged)n/a
http://example.com/admin/(unchanged)n/a
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