URL Rewrite on IIS from http to https is not worki

Question

I have a problem. On IIS I got a web-site with two ports 80 and 443(https). I want to redirect all the http requests from user to https. I also added Rewrite rule to https, but when I enter in browser http://localhost/site it gives me the same page. I need to redirect user to httpS://localhost/site.

Maybe this is because of my local configurations?

And I disable Require SSL on IIS.

The rule is:
<rewrite>
  <rules>
    <rule name="HTTPS Redirect">
      <match url="(.*)" ignoreCase="false" />
      <conditions>
        <add input="{HTTPS}" pattern="off" ignoreCase="false" />
      </conditions>
      <action type="Redirect" redirectType="Found" url="https://{HTTP_HOST}{REQUEST_URI}" />
    </rule>
  </rules>
</rewrite>

Thank you.

Answer 1

I realize this may not be your issue, however I had a similar debacle that was cause by a different problem.

I had enabled Require SSL and that caused the site to continually return a 403. So to use this method it appears you must disable SSL Settings -> Require SSL.

Hope this helps someone.

Answer 2

Below is the exact rule we use on a production IIS 7 site to redirect all request from HTTP to HTTPS

<configuration>
  <system.webServer>
    <rewrite>
      <rules>
        <rule name="Redirect to HTTPS" stopProcessing="true">
          <match url="(.*)" />
          <conditions>
            <add input="{HTTPS}" pattern="^OFF$" />
          </conditions>
          <action type="Redirect" url="https://{HTTP_HOST}/{R:1}" redirectType="Found" />
        </rule>
      </rules>
    </rewrite>
  </system.webServer>
</configuration>

There are some minor differences between what you have posted and what we use. Also, since you are running on local host, you wouldn't be using the built-in web server with visual studio would you? I don't think it will process IIS rewrite rules.

Answer 3

Also, if you have more than one rule, order could matter. Be sure to add the redirect rule before other rules or redirect may not fire.

Here is an example that is using SPA that required the rule order.

 <rules>

         // Adding this as last rule will cause it to not redirect
        <rule name="HTTP/S to HTTPS Redirect" enabled="true" stopProcessing="true">
        <match url="(.*)" />
        <conditions logicalGrouping="MatchAny">
          <add input="{SERVER_PORT_SECURE}" pattern="^0$" />
        </conditions>
        <action type="Redirect" url="https://{HTTP_HOST}{REQUEST_URI}" redirectType="Permanent" />
        </rule>


      <rule name="static dist files" stopProcessing="true">
        <match url="^(.+)" />
        <conditions>
          <add input="{APPL_PHYSICAL_PATH}app\{R:1}" matchType="IsFile" />
        </conditions>
        <action type="Rewrite" url="/app/{R:1}" />
      </rule>
      <rule name="index.html as document root" stopProcessing="true">
        <match url="^$" />
        <action type="Rewrite" url="/app/" />
      </rule>
      <rule name="SPA Routes" stopProcessing="true">
        <match url=".*|.*/.*$" />
        <conditions logicalGrouping="MatchAll">
          <add input="{REQUEST_FILENAME}" matchType="IsFile" negate="true" />
          <add input="{REQUEST_FILENAME}" matchType="IsDirectory" negate="true" />
          <add input="{REQUEST_URI}" pattern="^/(api)" negate="true" />
        </conditions>
        <action type="Rewrite" url="/app/" />
      </rule>
    </rules>

Answer 4

you can add this to your pages. to force redirection.

if (!Request.IsSecureConnection)
{
Uri uri = new Uri(Request.Url, Request.RawUrl);
Response.Redirect(string.Format("https://{0}{1}{2}", uri.Host.StartsWith("www.x.com") ? uri.Host : "www.x.com", uri.AbsolutePath, uri.Query));
 }

I just seen your tag of mvc

add this attribute to your actions. or controllers.

[RequireHttps]