We’re thrilled to announce that HiveShield 2.6 is live with one new feature: HTTP to HTTPS redirection, aka “Enforce End-User TLS“. It is designed for compatibility with an Elastic Load Balancer (ELB).

Prior to using HiveShield 2.6, the following AWS article shows how a customer would modify an Apache configuration to implement HTTP to HTTPS redirection behind an Elastic Load Balancer.

These instructions are fairly simple to implement on basic web server configurations.

Some of our clients use several PHP frameworks and apache modules which may conflict with an EC2-instance’s ability to read the HTTP headers necessary to properly perform this redirection.

HiveShield 2.6 solves this challenge by making HTTP to HTTPS redirection on Amazon AWS as simple as it could possibly be: Just select the “Enforce” option under the “Enforce End-User TLS” setting.

This feature is most useful in an “Advanced DDoS Autoscaling” configuration, whereby one or multiple Amazon Elastic Load Balancers (ELBs) are involved.