Heroku (PlayFramework/Scala) app automatically red

Question

I have an PlayFramework App developed using Scala running on Heroku; I only mention the development language and framework because any posts I've found regarding this issue relate to PHP! I have http and https running on a custom domain but I would like to force http requests to be redirect to https.

I've found that I need to update the .htaccess file with the following:

##Force SSL 

#Normal way (in case you need to deploy to NON-heroku)
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} !=on

#Heroku way
RewriteCond %{HTTP:X-Forwarded-Proto} !https 

#If neither above conditions are met, redirect to https
RewriteRule ^ https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R=301]

But I am not sure if it is possible or how to set up the .htaccess file using Play and Scala.

Please can someone advise? Thanks.

Answer 1

All you need to do is to add

play.filters.enabled += play.filters.https.RedirectHttpsFilter

In your .conf file.

It will redirect all HTTP requests to HTTPS automatically.

It only works in production mode by default. To change that, add :

play.filters.https.redirectEnabled = true

See the RedirectHttpsFilter documentation for more.