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Simple http to https redirect on iis7

Not being a web person, i have to ask this seemingly easy question. Random guides found on a google search are complicated because we already have a url-rewrite in place

we want to make it so anyone who goes to our site at http://www.example.com by http, are on-the-fly and blindly redirected to https://www.example.com while maintaining our existing url-rewrite

Our existing rewrites are handled by web.config it the root of the site and is in the code block below.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<configuration>
    <system.webServer>
        <rewrite>
            <rules>
                <clear />
                <rule name="Rewrite rule1 for CRMsoftwareTest" enabled="true" stopProcessing="true">
                    <match url="(CRMsoftware|api)(.*)" negate="true" />
                    <conditions logicalGrouping="MatchAll" trackAllCaptures="false" />
                    <action type="Redirect" url="CRMsoftware/portals{REQUEST_URI}" appendQueryString="false" redirectType="Found" />
                </rule>
            </rules>
            <rewriteMaps>
                <rewriteMap name="CRMsoftwareTest" />
            </rewriteMaps>
        </rewrite>
    </system.webServer>
</configuration>

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Mlanda T

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FocIS

ASKER

beautiful. thanks for this

FocIS

ASKER

Hello, one follow up question regarding this if you can please help still - still easy...

all of our email signature blocks contain JPG images that were affected by this rewrite

while http://www.example.com/whatever.jpg and
while https://www.example.com/whatever.jpg
ARE both valid and work... the signature images are hard coded to http and must be getting lost in translation, they apppear now as boxes with a red X indicating the file was moved or not availalbe (i guess outlook can't deal with redirects in images)

what code could i put in, or change, to exclude http requests for anything ending in .jpg, or i could also list specific url's of each of the 4-5 images if that helps

sorry for following up after accepting/closing, hopefully it's ok

Mlanda T

No worries. Just try adding an additional condition

<rule name="HTTP to HTTPS redirect" stopProcessing="true">
  <match url="(.*)" />
    <conditions>
      <add input="{HTTPS}" pattern="off" ignoreCase="true" />
      <add input="{REQUEST_URI}" negate="true" pattern="^*.jpg$" ignoreCase="true" />
    </conditions>
  <action type="Redirect" redirectType="Found" url="https://{HTTP_HOST}/{R:1}" />
</rule>

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I haven't tested this, but it will be something along those lines.

FocIS

ASKER

i think i'm close but every time i make it live, the main site is http error 500, and looking at the rules in the iis gui says
line number 16, error, config file is not well-formed xml

here's what i have in there (line 16 is the closing of </conditions>

i tried to specify the certain logo .jpg files so it doesn't interfere with actual jpg's embedded in the main site

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<configuration>
    <system.webServer>
        <rewrite>
            <rules>
                <clear />
<rule name="HTTP to HTTPS redirect" stopProcessing="true">
  <match url="(.*)" />
    <conditions>
      	<add input="{HTTPS}" pattern="off" ignoreCase="true" />
	<add input="{REQUEST_URI}" negate="true" pattern="^.*logo1.jpg$" ignoreCase="true">
	<add input="{REQUEST_URI}" negate="true" pattern="^.*logo2.jpg$" ignoreCase="true">
	<add input="{REQUEST_URI}" negate="true" pattern="^.*logo3.jpg$" ignoreCase="true">
	<add input="{REQUEST_URI}" negate="true" pattern="^.*logo4.jpg$" ignoreCase="true">
	<add input="{REQUEST_URI}" negate="true" pattern="^.*logo5.jpg$" ignoreCase="true">
    </conditions>
  <action type="Redirect" redirectType="Found" url="https://{HTTP_HOST}/{R:1}" />
</rule>

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Mlanda T

<add input="{REQUEST_URI}" negate="true" pattern="^.*logo1.jpg$" ignoreCase="true">

You are missing closing tags. the end of each of the new lines should be /> and not just >

FocIS

ASKER

Learning as we go here, thanks - i'm greatful for your continued help

Here's the exact code i have which results in the 500 still, but removing my logo lines leaving the https still works fine of course

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<configuration>
    <system.webServer>
        <rewrite>
            <rules>
                <clear />
		<rule name="HTTP to HTTPS redirect" stopProcessing="true">
  			<match url="(.*)" />
    			<conditions>
      			<add input="{HTTPS}" pattern="off" ignoreCase="true" />
			<add input="{REQUEST_URI}" negate="true" pattern="^.*logo1.jpg$" ignoreCase="true" />
			<add input="{REQUEST_URI}" negate="true" pattern="^.*logo2.jpg$" ignoreCase="true" />
			<add input="{REQUEST_URI}" negate="true" pattern="^.*logo3.jpg$" ignoreCase="true" />
			<add input="{REQUEST_URI}" negate="true" pattern="^.*logo4.jpg$" ignoreCase="true /">
			<add input="{REQUEST_URI}" negate="true" pattern="^.*logo5.jpg$" ignoreCase="true" />
    			</conditions>
  			<action type="Redirect" redirectType="Found" url="https://{HTTP_HOST}/{R:1}" />
		</rule>
		<rule name="Rewrite rule1 for CRMsoftware" enabled="true" stopProcessing="true">
                    <match url="(CRMsoftware|api)(.*)" negate="true" />
                    <conditions logicalGrouping="MatchAll" trackAllCaptures="false" />
                    <action type="Redirect" url="CRMsoftware/portals{REQUEST_URI}" appendQueryString="false" redirectType="Found" />
                </rule>
            </rules>
            <rewriteMaps>
                <rewriteMap name="CRMsoftwaretest" />
            </rewriteMaps>
        </rewrite>
    </system.webServer>
</configuration>

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FocIS

ASKER

oh, there it is i see the " outside the slash :)

Mlanda T

you can replace all those with a

<add input="{REQUEST_URI}" negate="true" pattern="^.*logo[0-9]+.jpg$" ignoreCase="true" />