Date: 12/14/07 (PHP Community)    Keywords: php

this might or might not be php specific, but i'm posting it here because i figured someone might have seen this and figured out a fix.

okay, so i think i found a "feature" of mod_ssl. mod_ssl is supposed to show _SERVER[HTTPS]=on|off at all times even if mod_ssl is not loaded, right?

well, not if you have virtualhosts set up to share port 443, apparantly.

i can see _SERVER[HTTPS] when i visit http://myhost/phpinfo.php and https://myhost/phpinfo.php, but if i go to https://myotherhost/phpinfo.php, i see no _SERVER[HTTPS] variable, but i DO get a secure page served by mod_ssl using the default certificate and no errors. my script is just unable to determine if the page was served through SSL or not due to the lack of _SERVER[HTTPS]

is there something i need to do to get mod_ssl to export those vars to all of the virtualhosts? do i need to generate a new cert or something? any ideas?

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/php/603875.html