Why won't my mod_rewrite work for HTTPS like HTTP

I'm sorry for yet another of these posts, but from what I can tell, my question is different than the prevailing http -> https redirects out there.

I want to

      redirect all http://www.mydomain.com traffic to https://www.mydomain.com/wiki

AND

      redirect https://www.mydomain.com   to   https://www.mydomain.com/wiki

Notice the https in my first redirect goal.

For the first redirect, I am able to accomplish this by putting:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} /
RewriteRule ^(.*) https://%{SERVER_NAME}/wiki [R,L]

In my httpd.conf file and restarting.

I thought this would also work for my https:// attempts. Notice, I am not including

RewriteCond %{HTTPS} !=on

or anything like that. Yet, still https://www.mydomain.com sends me to my index.html file in my server root.

If I try to put the above Rewrite directives in my httpd-ssl.conf file and restart the server then I get infinite redirects.

What am I doing wrong?

NOTE: For what its worth, /wiki is an alias to /home/Users/myusername/www/wiki (the absolute path to wiki)

UPDATE

Rehash as to what I've tried so far:

Attempt 1:

In httpd.conf:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} /
RewriteRule ^(.*) https://%{SERVER_NAME}/wiki [R,L]

In httpd-ssl.conf:

Nothing Rewrite related

Result 1:

Redirects all http traffic to https://www.mydomain.com/wiki Does 开发者_开发问答nothing for https://www.mydomain.com

Attempt 2:

In httpd.conf:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} /
RewriteRule ^(.*) https://%{SERVER_NAME}/wiki [R,L]

In httpd-ssl.conf:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} /
RewriteRule ^(.*) https://%{SERVER_NAME}/wiki [R,L]

Result 2:

Infinite redirects.

Attempt 3:

In httpd.conf:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} /
RewriteRule !^wiki https://%{SERVER_NAME}/wiki [R,L]

In httpd-ssl.conf:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} /
RewriteRule !^wiki https://%{SERVER_NAME}/wiki [R,L]

Result 3:

Infinite redirects.

Your rule will match every request (even /wiki). Try to exclude that:

RewriteRule !^wiki https://%{HTTP_HOST}/wiki [R,L]

The infinite redirects are coming from the fact that the rule matches both the first client request (eg. http://...) and from any subsequent request.

You would do better to use a rewrite rule which excludes the wiki path from the match e.g.

RewriteRule !^wiki https://%{HTTP_HOST}/wiki [R,L]

or you might get better performance from a RewriteCond

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^wiki

before your existing rule. This will make it easier to add more complex patterns that you currently have in your example (should you need to later in your project).

I found a solution that might not be the most robust but it works for me.

In my httpd-ssl.conf file, under the VirtualHost container, I set the DocumentRoot to point to the directory that I've been trying to redirect to.

<VirtualHost _default_:443>
DocumentRoot "path on my HD where I wanted to redirect all along"
ServerName    All the usual stuff...
...

This takes care of "redirects" (not really redirects anymore) for https transactions

For http (non-ssl) I placed in httpd.conf:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} /
RewriteRule ^(.*) https://%{SERVER_NAME}/wiki [R,L]

That seemed to do it.