Secure website on Windows Apache which overrides Ruby proxy

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Hi all,

First of all I will describe the setup and then ask the question.

I have created a test website which is running on Apache 2.2 on Windows and uses Ruby on Rails 1.8 ( this older version is a requirement, but I think irrelevant to this question ) for a couple of dynamic pages, the rest of the pages are static.

The main website runs in "C:/MyRubyWebsite" through Ruby on Rails with 2 pages, "profile" and "other1", having dynamic URL which are re-written to HTTPS protocol (please see the configuration at the end of the question). The rest of the pages are served as is, they are static.

The same root directory, "C:/MyRubyWebsite", also contains a subdirectory for a PHP website, which does not depend on Ruby on Rails, e.g. "C:/MyRubyWebsite/phpwebsite". The latter would be accessible by going to "http://www.rubywebsitedomain.com/phpwebsite".

Now is the actual question. I need the PHP website, which is independent on Ruby on Rails, to be served under HTTPS. Given all the configuration below that would seem to be straightforward, just type HTTPS in front of the php website url, but when I do that the URL is re-written back to regular HTTP, e.g. non-secure.

What can be done here to allow for having non-Ruby website to be served under HTTPS?

Thank you ahead.

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The following is the configuration of the virtual directories within the Apache config (ip addresses, domains, and directory names are fictional, but otherwise the configuration is accurate):

--------------------- Apache Config ---------------------

Listen 111.222.333.444:80
Listen 111.222.333.444:443
 
AddType application/x-x509-ca-cert .crt
AddType application/x-pkcs7-crl    .crl
 
SSLSessionCache        "shmcb:C:/Program Files/Apache Software Foundation/Apache2.2/logs/ssl_scache(512000)"
SSLSessionCacheTimeout  300
 
SSLMutex default
 
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_METHOD} ^TRACE
RewriteRule .* - [F]
 
ProxyRequests Off
AllowCONNECT 443
 
<VirtualHost www.rubywebsitedomain.com:80>
     ServerAdmin [e-mail]
     DocumentRoot "C:/MyRubyWebsite"
     ServerName www.rubywebsitedomain.com
     ErrorLog "logs/rubywebsitedomain-err.log"
     CustomLog "logs/rubywebsitedomain-cust.log"
     ErrorDocument 503 /err503.html
 
     RewriteEngine on
 
# Configure mongrel instances to serve /info requests
     <Proxy balancer://mongrel_cluster>
         BalancerMember http://127.0.0.1:7771
         BalancerMember http://127.0.0.1:7772
     BalancerMember http://127.0.0.1:7773
     BalancerMember http://127.0.0.1:7774
     </Proxy>
 
   ProxyPass /info balancer://mongrel_cluster/info
   ProxyPassReverse /info balancer://mongrel_cluster/info
 
   RewriteCond %{REQUEST_METHOD} ^TRACE
   RewriteRule .* - [F]
   RewriteRule ^$ /
 
   RewriteRule ^/profile/(.*) https://www.rubywebsitedomain/profile/($1) [R,L]
   RewriteRule ^/other1/(.*) https://www.rubywebsitedomain/other1/($1) [R,L]
 
</VirtualHost>
 
 
<VirtualHost www.rubywebsitedomain.com:443>
     ServerAdmin [e-mail]
     DocumentRoot "C:/MyRubyWebsite"
     ServerName www.rubywebsitedomain.com
     ErrorLog "logs/rubywebsitedomain-secure-err.log"
     CustomLog "logs/rubywebsitedomain-secure-cust.log"
     ErrorDocument 503 http://www.rubywebsitedomain.com/err503.html
 
# Configure mongrel instances to serve /info requests
     <Proxy balancer://mongrel_cluster>
         BalancerMember http://127.0.0.1:7771
         BalancerMember http://127.0.0.1:7772
     BalancerMember http://127.0.0.1:7773
     BalancerMember http://127.0.0.1:7774
     </Proxy>
 
   ProxyPass /info balancer://mongrel_cluster/info
   ProxyPassReverse /info balancer://mongrel_cluster/info
 
   RewriteEngine on
 
   RewriteCond %{REQUEST_METHOD} ^TRACE
   RewriteRule .* - [F]
 
   ErrorLog logs/your_app_error_log
   CustomLog logs/your_access_log combined
 
   SSLEngine on
   SSLCipherSuite ALL:!aNULL:!ADH:!eNULL:!LOW:!EXP:RC4+RSA:+HIGH:+MEDIUM
   SSLCertificateFile "C:/Program Files/Apache Software Foundation/Apache2.2/ssl/mycert.crt"
   SSLCertificateKeyFile "C:/Program Files/Apache Software Foundation/Apache2.2/ssl/mycert.key"
   SSLCACertificateFile "C:/Program Files/Apache Software Foundation/Apache2.2/ssl/intercert.crt"
 
   <FilesMatch "\.(cgi|shtml|phtml|php)$">
      SSLOptions +StdEnvVars
   </FilesMatch>
   <Directory "C:/Program Files/Apache Software   Foundation/Apache2.2/cgi-bin">
      SSLOptions +StdEnvVars
   </Directory>
 
   BrowserMatch ".*MSIE.*" \
         nokeepalive ssl-unclean-shutdown \
         downgrade-1.0 force-response-1.0
 
   CustomLog "C:/logs/sslrlog.log" \
          "%t %h %{SSL_PROTOCOL}x %{SSL_CIPHER}x \"%r\" %b"
 
</VirtualHost>