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URL https redirect

We have a new website that we need to do a redirect if someone puts in the URL with http: instead of https: ....

for example - site is:

https://somepage.company.com (this works fine)
Would like for a user to be able to put this in and have it work:
http://somepage.company.com (redirect to https:)

One other thing is that the ssl cert is for this page: https://sompage.company.com
A user can also put in https:/company.com and it gets them to the page but the cert is incorrect. I think a wildcard? cert should have been installed? Can someone describe how that should work?

Oh, this is on IIS 8 on a Server 2012 R2 machine.
Thanks

David Johnson, CD

This is a standard question on url redirection
use the url rewrite handler
https://www.experts-exchange.com/questions/28689944/Redirect-IIS-8-0-website-from-http-to-https.html
you can also redirect mydomain.xxx to mydomain.xxx\mysite

When I would get the certificate I'd use domain.com for the subject name rather than domain.com\mysite

David Johnson, CD

for a subdomain you need a separate or a wildcard certificate

BCHCAdmin

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I am able to get the redirect (from http: to https:) to work on our internal network but its not working outside? Is this a DNS issue? Firewall issue possibly?

I set up a forward lookup zone on our internal DNS servers to point to the internal IP address of our webserver. So when I go to http://somepage.company.com it redirects to https://somepage.company.com correctly. But when I get outside our network, its not working.

Thank you for your assistance!

BCHCAdmin

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Bit more info - I have a Sonic Firewall NSA 4500. It does not appear that is letting http: traffic through to my web server, where I think I could then redirect to the https: website. So I either need to allow this http: traffic, or do the redirect at the sonicwall.

Anyone?

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