Technical Tip: How to redirect admin login to HTTPS from HTTP

Description

This article describes how to redirect admin login to HTTPS from HTTP.

When browsing the FortiGate using http://fortigate.ip, it will redirect to https://fortigate.ip.

For security reasons, this redirect is enabled by default in newer FortiOS versions:

Solution

This setting can be enabled/disabled in the following way:

From the GUI go to System -> Settings -> Administrator Settings and select check box 'Redirect to HTTPS' to make sure that all attempted HTTP login connections are redirected to HTTPS:

From the CLI:

# config system global
    set admin-https-redirect enable
end

With VDOMs enabled:

# config global
# config system global
    set admin-https-redirect enable
end