Dokuwiki SSL Login rewrite rules

[lenz at vfemail.net]

Okay, I started to translate the rule myself and after a bit of 
experimentation I ended up with this. The aim is to force users to use 
the https protocol for login and administration.

# in context server:
  if ($args ~ do=(login|admin|profile)){
    rewrite ^ https://$server_name$uri redirect;
  }

While this works for Opera, it doesn't work for wget and Firefox:
There's obviously a redirection loop going on:

% wget --no-check-certificate http://xvt.localhost/start\?do=login
--2011-06-20 18:25:57--  http://xvt.localhost/start?do=login
Resolving xvt.localhost... 127.0.1.1
Connecting to xvt.localhost|127.0.1.1|:80... connected.

HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 302 Moved Temporarily
Location: https://xvt.localhost/start?do=login [following]
--2011-06-20 18:25:57--  https://xvt.localhost/start?do=login
Connecting to xvt.localhost|127.0.1.1|:443... connected.

HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 302 Moved Temporarily
Location: https://xvt.localhost/start?do=login [following]
--2011-06-20 18:25:57--  https://xvt.localhost/start?do=login
Reusing existing connection to xvt.localhost:443.

[... and on and on... until finally ]

20 redirections exceeded.

In Firefox the message looks like this:
"Firefox has detected that the server is redirecting the request for 
this address in a way that will never complete."

Any ideas on this?

On 18.06.2011 20:15, lenz at vfemail.net wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I'm preparing a nginx configuration for Dokuwiki and it all works except
> the following feature:
>
> If a user logs in the protocol force-switches to https and back to plain
> http after the login. So far, this has been realised with the apache2
> rewrite rules which I stole from [1].
>
> Can anybody, who is familiar with nginx rewrite rules translate these
> apache2 rules to nginx? I'm sure many users would benefit from this.
> Thank you very much in advance. I hope this is even possible with nginx :S
>
> [1] http://www.dokuwiki.org/tips:httpslogin?s[]=ssl&s[]=rewrite
>