Redirect HTTP requests to HTTPS on IIS 7

Automatically Redirect HTTP requests to HTTPS on IIS 7 using   URL Rewrite 2.0

 Requirements

 - SSL Certificate for site installed in IIS.
- Site properly installed and configured for SSL (site set up and binding in IIS configured).
- URL Rewrite 2.0 is installed on the sever.
  

Install URL Rewrite 2.0 on your webserver,

download url: http://www.iis.net/download/URLRewrite

This is a plug-in for IIS 7 that allows you to manipulate URL’s.

URL Rewrite has a GUI to allow you to enter rules within IIS 7; in the background all this does is edit the web.config file of the site. I will show you how to create a rule both ways.

- Select the website you wish to configure
- In the “Features View” panel, double click URL Rewrite

You will notice there are currently no rules configured for this site. Click “Add Rules…” in the Actions menu to the right of the “Features View” panel

Use the default “Blank rule” and press “OK”.

When editing a rule there are the “Name” field and 4 configuration pull down boxes.

- Enter “Redirect to HTTPS” in the name field.
- Next we will configure the first configuration pull down box called “Match URL”, on the right side of “Match URL” press the down arrow to expand the box.

Within the “Match URL” configuration box we will set the following settings:

Requested URL: Matches the Pattern
Using: Regular Expressions
Pattern: (.*)

We can now edit the next configuration pull down box which is “Conditions”, Press “Add…” to add a new condition to the configuration.

We will configure the condition with the following settings:

Condition Input: {HTTPS}
Check if input string: Matches the Pattern
Pattern: ^OFF$

Press “OK”

You should see your condition in the list of conditions.

Continue onto the “Action” configuration box and pull down the box by selecting the arrow on the right. We will configure the following settings for the “Action” configuration:

Action Type: Redirect
Redirect URL: https://{HTTP_HOST}/{R:1}
Redirect Type: See Other (303)

Press “Apply” then press “Back to Rules”

You should now see the rule configured on the main screen of the URL Rewrite module.

Test your site, it should now redirect from HTTP to HTTPS.