static site apache and dynamic/member site django - django

Question

I have a site for static content, accessible to all that runs on apache. As an adjunct to that, there is a members site that runs on django. I haven't had any issue 'sharing' my .css and making both sides equivalent in appearance, but what I can't quite seem to grok is getting my django site to be django password protected (with the additional caveat that all member material, from the login forward, goes through 443).
I can serve all the pages, I have tried to use mod_rewrite as follows:
<Directory /Library/Webserver/Documents>
.
.
.
</Directory>
WSGIScriptAlias /members /usr/local/django/mysite/apache/django.wsgi
<Directory /members>
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off
RewriteRule (.*) https://{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [L]
.
.
</Directory>
I have tried every one of a thousand different items in the '/members location above, nothing seems to hit (and yes, RewriteEngine On is included - I can watch the debug come out).

Answer 1

Try:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off
RewriteRule (.*) https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI}
You should be redirecting back to same host the request was made against, not necessarily the actual web server host.
I also don't believe there is a %{URI} variable in mod_rewrite. Supposed to use %{REQUEST_URI}.
EDIT 1
As per comments, should be:
<Location /members>
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off
RewriteRule (.*) https://{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [L]
.
.
</Location>
or:
<Directory /usr/local/django/mysite/apache>
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off
RewriteRule (.*) https://{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [L]
.
.
</Directory>
So, Location is for URL and Directory is for file system directory.