Rails - How to Redirect from http://example.com to https://www.example.com

Question

I\'m looking to learn how to cleanup my app\'s URLs. My app is powered by Rails 3 on Heroku.

The desired URL is https://www.example.comite.com

I

Answer 1

DO it in your vhosts file.

Setup a SSL vhost.

In your standard port 80 virtual host. Add this to the config:

Redirect permanent / https://www.mysite.com

This will forward all port 80 requests to https.