Redirecting HTTP to HTTPS in Confluence not working, what did I miss?

Paul Vreugdenhil

I have followed the directions to run Confluence over SSL (https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/running-confluence-over-ssl-or-https-161203.html) and I can't get the redirect to work. In my server.xml file I have:

<Connector port="80" connectionTimeout="20000" redirectPort="8443"
maxThreads="200" minSpareThreads="10"
enableLookups="false" acceptCount="10" debug="0" URIEncoding="UTF-8"
protocol="org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11NioProtocol"/>

and

<Connector port="8443" maxHttpHeaderSize="8192"
maxThreads="200" minSpareThreads="25"
protocol="org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Nio2Protocol"
enableLookups="false" disableUploadTimeout="true"
acceptCount="100" scheme="https" secure="true"
clientAuth="false" sslProtocol="TLSv1.2" sslEnabledProtocols="TLSv1.2" SSLEnabled="true"
URIEncoding="UTF-8" keystorePass="changeit" keystoreFile="C:\Program Files\Atlassian\confluence.keystore"/>

 

In my web.xml file I added:

<security-constraint>
<web-resource-collection>
<web-resource-name>Restricted URLs</web-resource-name>
<url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>
</web-resource-collection>
<user-data-constraint>
<transport_guarantee>CONFIDENTIAL</transport_guarantee>
</user-data-constraint>
</security-constraint>

 

I restarted Confluence and now I can access with HTTP and I can access with HTTPS but HTTP is not redirecting to HTTPS. Can you tell me what I have missed?

 

Brant Schroeder

The only thing that I can see is your URL pattern is /* instead of / as in the documentation.  /* on a servlet overrides all other servlets while / doesn't override any other servlet.  Both should technically redirect but you might make the change and see if that resolves your issue.