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How to Force Routes to Always Use HTTPS or HTTP

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Sometimes, you want to secure some routes and be sure that they are always accessed via the HTTPS protocol. The Routing component allows you to enforce the URI scheme with the schemes setting:

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// src/AppBundle/Controller/MainController.php
namespace AppBundle\Controller;

use Symfony\Bundle\FrameworkBundle\Controller\Controller;
use Symfony\Component\Routing\Annotation\Route;

class MainController extends Controller
{
    /**
     * @Route("/secure", name="secure", schemes={"https"})
     */
    public function secureAction()
    {
        // ...
    }
}

The above configuration forces the secure route to always use HTTPS.

When generating the secure URL, and if the current scheme is HTTP, Symfony will automatically generate an absolute URL with HTTPS as the scheme, even when using the path() function:

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{# If the current scheme is HTTPS #}
{{ path('secure') }}
{# generates a relative URL: /secure #}

{# If the current scheme is HTTP #}
{{ path('secure') }}
{# generates an absolute URL: https://example.com/secure #}

The requirement is also enforced for incoming requests. If you try to access the /secure path with HTTP, you will automatically be redirected to the same URL, but with the HTTPS scheme.

The above example uses https for the scheme, but you can also force a URL to always use http.

Note

The Security component provides another way to enforce HTTP or HTTPS via the requires_channel setting. This alternative method is better suited to secure an "area" of your website (all URLs under /admin) or when you want to secure URLs defined in a third party bundle (see How to Force HTTPS or HTTP for different URLs for more details).

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