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            [#value] => <p>I never dug into mod_rewrite before Drupal. Now I do. I hope that I have explained this properly and that it helps others figure things out.</p>
<p>So here is the scenario:</p>
<ul>
<li>logins should occur via SSL</li>
<li>everything else should occur via non-ssl</li>
<li>the main site is www.example.com</li>
<li>the ssl site is ssl.example.com</li>
</ul>
<p>Normally, I understand that this is an easy process to accomplish if the third level domains match. In my case, this isn't true. I have a pre-existing certificate that I didn't want to burn and I personally prefer that my ssl site NOT use www as the hostname. </p>
<p>So this takes modifications in four different areas:</p>
<ul>
<li>virtual host configuration for non-ssl site</li>
<li>virtual host configuration for the ssl site</li>
<li>manually setting the cookie in settings.php</li>
<li>install the module, securepages</li>
</ul>
<ol>
<li>The following lines will modify port 80 traffic and URLs that are routed to this virtual host. Add these lines to your non-ssl config in the mod_rewrite section:<br />
<code><br />
  RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.example\.com$ [NC]<br />
  RewriteRule ^.*$ http://www.example.com%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R=301]<br />
  RewriteCond  %{SERVER_PORT}  !^80$<br />
  RewriteRule ^.*$ http://www.example.com/%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R=301]<br />
</code></p>
</li>
<li>The following lines will modify port 443 traffic and URLs that are routed to this virtual host. Add these lines to your ssl config in the mod_rewrite section:<br />
<code><br />
  RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^ssl\.example\.com$ [NC]<br />
  RewriteRule ^.*$ https://ssl.example.com%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R=301]<br />
  RewriteCond  %{SERVER_PORT}  !^443$<br />
  RewriteRule ^.*$ https://ssl.example.com/%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R]<br />
</code>
</li>
<li>
Add this to your setting.php file for this Drupal site:<br />
<code>ini_set('session.cookie_domain', ".example.com");<br />
</code>
</li>
<li>I won't explain how to install the securepages module. I assume you got here by knowing enough about Drupal. :) But, once you do install it, configure it to check the box about *using http whenever possible* checkbox. The reset of default settings that come with the module should work fine.</li>
</ol>
<p>Enjoy!</p>
<p>( partial credit goes to souvent22 and others in IRC)</p>

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