--- doc/loncapafiles/webserver.piml	2020/01/06 15:54:10	1.43.2.3
+++ doc/loncapafiles/webserver.piml	2018/11/01 18:12:56	1.45
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 	"http://lpml.sourceforge.net/DTD/piml.dtd">
 <!-- webserver.piml -->
 
-<!-- $Id: webserver.piml,v 1.43.2.3 2020/01/06 15:54:10 raeburn Exp $ -->
+<!-- $Id: webserver.piml,v 1.45 2018/11/01 18:12:56 raeburn Exp $ -->
 
 <!--
 
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ http://www.lon-capa.org/
 <target dist='sles10 sles11 sles12 sles15 suse10.1 suse10.2 suse10.3 suse11.1 suse11.2 suse11.3 suse11.4 suse12.1 suse12.2 suse12.3 suse13.1 suse13.2'>/etc/apache2/default-server.conf</target>
 <target dist='debian5 debian6 ubuntu6 ubuntu8 ubuntu10 ubuntu12'>/etc/apache2/sites-available/loncapa</target>
 <target dist='ubuntu14 ubuntu16 ubuntu18'>/etc/apache2/conf-available/loncapa</target>
-<note>This is for Apache 1.X for Red Hat 4ES, Fedora 2, 3 and 4, SusSE 9.2 and 9.3, and SLES 9 distributions. This is for Apache 2.X for Fedora 5, Red Hat 5, CentOS 5, Scientific Linux 5, Oracle Linux 5, SuSE 10.1, SLES 10, Debian 5, Ubuntu LTS 8 and later distributions</note>
+<note>This is for Apache 1.X for Red Hat 4ES, Fedora 2, 3 and 4, SusSE 9.2 and 9.3, and SLES 9 distributions. This is for Apache 2.X for Fedora 5, Red Hat 5, CentOS 5, Scientific Linux 5, SuSE 10.1, SLES 10, Debian 5, Ubuntu LTS 8 and later distributions</note>
 <dependencies dist='default'>
 /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf
 </dependencies>
@@ -197,7 +197,7 @@ else {
             'of requests for http:// to https:// '."\n".'or:'."\n".$rewrite_off.
             ' - the file used to disable such rewriting'."\n\n".
             'This may be because '. $curr_rewrite.' has been '. 
-            'previously customized,'."\n".'or it may be because of a change '.  
+            'previously customized,'."\n".' or it may be because of a change '.  
             'to the files in '.$rewrite_dir."\n");
             if (open(my $fh,'&lt;',$curr_rewrite)) {
                 while(&lt;$fh&gt;) {
@@ -219,7 +219,7 @@ else {
                 || '<DIST />' eq 'sles9') {
                 $ssldir = '/etc/apache/vhosts.d';
             } elsif ('<DIST />' =~ /^(suse|sles)/) {
-                $ssldir = '/etc/apache2/vhosts.d';
+                $ssldir = '/etc/apache2/vhosts.d';                  
             } elsif ('<DIST />' =~ /^(debian|ubuntu)/) {
                 $ssldir = '/etc/apache2/sites-available';
             } else {
@@ -227,9 +227,7 @@ else {
             }
             my $hostname = Sys::Hostname::FQDN::fqdn();
             my $hostip = Socket::inet_ntoa(scalar(gethostbyname($hostname)) || 'localhost');
-            my @expected = ('RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/adm/wrapper/ext/(?!https:\/\/)',
-                            'RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} (^|&(|amp;))usehttp=1($|&)',
-                            'RewriteRule ^/adm/wrapper/ext/(?!https:\/\/) http://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [R,L,NE]',
+            my @expected = ('RewriteRule ^/adm/wrapper/ext/(?!https:\/\/) http://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [R,L,NE]',
                             'RewriteCond %{REMOTE_ADDR} 127.0.0.1',
                             'RewriteRule (.*) - [L]');
             if (($hostip ne '') && ($hostip ne '127.0.0.1')) {
@@ -237,7 +235,7 @@ else {
                                 'RewriteRule (.*) - [L]'));
             }
             push(@expected,('RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/public/.*/syllabus$',
-                            'RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} (^|&(|amp;))usehttp=1($|&)',
+                            'RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} (^|&)usehttp=1($|&)',
                             'RewriteRule ^/public/.*/syllabus$ http://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [R,L,NE]'));
             if (-d $ssldir) {
                 my @rewrites;
@@ -267,7 +265,7 @@ else {
                                         } else {
                                             chomp();
                                             s/^(\s+|\s+)$//g;
-                                            push(@{$rewrites[$num]},$_);
+                                            push(@{$rewrites[$num]},$_);                              
                                         }
                                     } elsif (/^\s*&lt;IfModule\s+mod_rewrite.c&gt;/) {
                                         $rewrite = 1;
@@ -292,18 +290,17 @@ else {
                                 }
                             }
                             if ($found &gt;= @expected) {
-                                $gotrules = 1;
+                                $gotrules = 1;                                
                             }
                         }
                     }
                 }
             }
             unless ($gotrules) {
-                print('**** WARNING **** '."\n".$curr_rewrite.' is currently set so rewrites '.
+                print('**** WARNING **** '.$curr_rewrite.' is currently set so rewrites '.
                       'of http to https are enabled for most URLs.'."\n".
-                      'Unless your Apache configuration includes Strict-Transport-Security '.
-                      '(with max-age > 0), it is recommended to also set rewrites from https to http '.
-                      'for specific URLs in a file in '.$ssldir.' by including the following:'."\n".
+                      'It is recommended to also set rewrites from https to http '.
+                      'in a file in '.$ssldir.' by including the following:'."\n".
                       "&lt;IfModule mod_rewrite.c&gt;\n".'  '.
                       join("\n  ",@expected)."\n".
                       "&lt;/IfModule&gt;\n");