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Redirect to HTTPS

Zone: Microsoft IIS Web Server

Tags: redirect, https, iis

Hello,

How can I configure IIS 5 to redirect a website (virtual directory) to a secured site? When users type http://www.website.com/website they get an error and I have to tell them to insert a 's' in after the http(s) to make it viewable. Basically I want to configure IIS to automatically redirect them when they type http://www.website.com/website to https://www.website.com/website? Can someone please assist me?

Thanks in advance

Nabs

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Zone: Software

Question Asked By: Nabsdar

Solution Provided By: daniel_c

Participating Experts: 6

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10.05.2003 at 07:24PM PDT, ID: 9495907

daniel_c:

Add small snippet in your default.asp

<%
bSSLOn = (Request.ServerVariables("HTTPS") = "on")
if not bSSLOn then
sURL = "https://" & Request.ServerVariables("SERVER_NAME") & Request.ServerVariables("URL")
if Request.ServerVariables("QUERY_STRING") <> "" then
sURL = sURL & "?" & Request.ServerVariables("QUERY_STRING")
end if
Response.Redirect sURL
end if
%>

HTH.

10.06.2003 at 06:57AM PDT, ID: 9498250

Nabsdar:

Thanks for your prompt input but is this not going to effect the entire website? I am just looking for redirection on a virtual directory http://www.website.com/virtual_directory.com to an https. Please advice

Thanks again,
Nabs

10.06.2003 at 02:33PM PDT, ID: 9501359

daniel_c:

Other things might be set your virtual home directory properties, instead to specific folder, make it to specific url:
https://www.website.com/virtual_directory

10.07.2003 at 07:56AM PDT, ID: 9506245

Nabsdar:

This solution is not working very well for me! Any other ideas anyone?

Thanks
Nabs

10.07.2003 at 12:02PM PDT, ID: 9508276

daniel_c:

Simpler solution:
1. Create one html page, name it redirectssl.htm and save it into your virtual directory folder. Here is the redirectssl.htm content:
<script language=javascript>
self.location = "https://www.website.com/virtual_directory.com "
</script>
<noscript>
<META HTTP-EQUIV=Refresh CONTENT="1; URL=https://www.website.com/virtual_directory.com ">
</noscript>

2. Open your IIS, right click on your virtual directory site, click Properties.
3. Switch to Custom Error Tab
4. Edit properties of 403;4.
5. Set message type to FILE
6. Click browse button and point it into your redirectssl.htm
7. Click OK button twice.

Now try to put http://www.website.com/virtual_directory.com (without s).

HTH.

10.08.2003 at 07:03AM PDT, ID: 9513369

shalomc:

You need something similar to Apache's Rewrite....

http://www.isapirewrite.com/

This tool will let your server redirect URLs based on various criteria.

ShalomC

10.08.2003 at 09:19AM PDT, ID: 9514366

Nabsdar:

Hello daniel_c

You are definitely on the right track with the last solution to my problem but it still does not work! Please advice further.

Thanks for your time,
Nabs

10.08.2003 at 10:52AM PDT, ID: 9514984

daniel_c:

it does not work? you mean it doesn't redirect?

10.08.2003 at 11:47AM PDT, ID: 9515368

Nabsdar:

Yes, it does not redirect.

10.08.2003 at 11:51AM PDT, ID: 9515401

daniel_c:

Post your HTML file code. I need to see it.

10.08.2003 at 12:52PM PDT, ID: 9515938

Nabsdar:

Okay it worked!
I had put in the wrong code!

Thanks daniel_c: so now to apply this to our current directory, should I just insert this code in it or how do I go about this?

I really appreciate your help
Nabs

10.08.2003 at 01:16PM PDT, ID: 9516152

Nabsdar:

One other problem:

I don't see the contents of the page. It redirects it to https but its just a page with an error!
Why?

10.08.2003 at 02:02PM PDT, ID: 9516493

daniel_c:

so now to apply this to our current directory, should I just insert this code in it or how do I go about this?
--> just need to insert that code (in fact, thanks to your post, i'm using it myself for my server now)

I don't see the contents of the page. It redirects it to https but its just a page with an error!
--> what error now?

Accepted Solution

10.08.2003 at 10:28PM PDT, ID: 9518480

EvilOtto:

Each website has a default document, the redirect should be named that (I.E. default.htm)

The target website has a document you want people to load, so specify it in the code.

---
script language=javascript>
self.location = "https://www.website.com/virtual_directory/HTMLfileNAME.HTM "
</script>
---

10.09.2003 at 10:17AM PDT, ID: 9522196

Nabsdar:

Thanks daniel_c fir putting me on the right direction. I finally got it to work perfectly!!

Nabs

10.09.2003 at 10:41AM PDT, ID: 9522359

daniel_c:

Great!!!

03.09.2004 at 03:16PM PST, ID: 10555833

LPhillippi:

We use an SSL accerlerator so ASP doesn't see the request as HTTPS. I came up with the code below to perform the redirect using JavaScript since the client always sees the request as SSL.

<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript">
if (location.protocol != 'https:'){
window.location= 'https://' + location.host + location.pathname + location.search
}
</SCRIPT>

03.03.2005 at 03:07AM PST, ID: 13448075

Brazuca_Califa:

Just wanted to post my solution.
Basicaly same as above by Daniel

1. Open your IIS, right click on your virtual directory site, click Properties.
2. Switch to Custom Error Tab
3. Edit properties of 403;4.
4. Set message type to FILE
5. Click browse button and point it into your redirect.htm
6. Click OK button twice.

redirect.html
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<title>API E-MAIL SERVER</title>
<meta http-equiv="REFRESH" content="1;url=https://site/exchange"></HEAD>
<BODY>
Loading... https://site/exchange
</BODY>
</HTML>

note:
content="1 - is the time in seconds it will take to redirect

dmbrubac

12.21.2007 at 12:26PM PST, ID: 20516146

Another (and perhaps better) way is to have two websites - one that accepts host headers for mysite.com, .org, .net and whatever else you want. Everything is on port 80. In the Home Directory tab in IIS manager, set it to "A redirection to a URL". Enter https://mysite.com. Also check the permanent redirect box.
Next, in the site you want to force SSL, make sure it also responds to the mysite.com host header, but change the port to something high - make sure its unreachable behind your firewall. Set the security as necessary and you're done.

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