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How to force HTTPS for URLs with specific words in them?

We have a legacy website with some areas for which we want to force HTTPS. It is easy enough to force HTTPS for entire website however we want to be more selective.

What is the best regex to only match specific word in URL and redirect to HTTPS?

Original URL:

http://www.website.com/SPECIFIC_WORD?tid=3363a670-a37a-4b5e-9a08-91c10r78a7f0

Redirect to:

https://www.website.com/SPECIFIC_WORD?tid=3363a670-a37a-4b5e-9a08-91c10r78a7f0

We are using URL rewrite module under IIS 8.5.

Any ideas?

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Kimputer

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Tomasz Bojarski

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Thanks Kimputer,

That worked like a charm. This let's me create multiple rules for specific words. How would I combine these into a single rule? IS there a way to have look for multiple words in "match url" ?

<rule name="Redirect STRING1 to HTTPS" stopProcessing="true">
<match url="STRING1?(.*)" />
<conditions logicalGrouping="MatchAll" trackAllCaptures="false">
<add input="{HTTPS}" pattern="^OFF$" />
</conditions>
<action type="Redirect" url="https://{HTTP_HOST}/{R:0}" />
</rule>
<rule name="Redirect STRING2 to HTTPS" enabled="true" stopProcessing="true">
<match url="STRING2?(.*)" />
<conditions logicalGrouping="MatchAll" trackAllCaptures="false">
<add input="{HTTPS}" pattern="^OFF$" />
</conditions>
<action type="Redirect" url="https://{HTTP_HOST}/{R:0}" logRewrittenUrl="true" />
</rule>

Thanks
Tom

Tomasz Bojarski

ASKER

I have combined this into a single rule by adding

<match url ="STRING1?(.*)|STRING2?(.*)|STRING3?(.*)|STRING4?(.*)|STRING5?(.*)" />

Thanks for your help