I have setup a website in IIS and this website has two applications (as shown in the snapshot below).
I have to enable https on the applications. I have installed the SSL certificate and setup the applications to use https instead of http. Now I want to implement autoredirect from http to https, ONLY for the test application (PersonalCornerTest).
I am using UrlRewrite using the below links as reference,
https://www.sslshopper.com/iis7-redirect-http-to-https.html (Method 1)
and
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/kaushal/2013/05/22/http-to-https-redirects-on-iis-7-x-and-higher/ (Method 1)
I used the below setting in configuration file of the test application,
<rule name="HTTP to HTTPS redirect" stopProcessing="true">
<match url="(.*)" />
<conditions>
<add input="{HTTPS}" pattern="off" ignoreCase="true" />
</conditions>
<action type="Redirect" redirectType="Found" url="https://{HTTP_HOST}/{R:1}" />
However, the issue is, after adding the below code, when user tries to access the test site using http in url, it automatically redirects to https, but to the non-test site (i.e. PersonalCorner) and not the test application, which is confusing.
Can anyone let me know what mistake I am doing in the above setting? I want to implement autoredirect only for the test application.
Answering my query myself!
The below configuration fixed the issue,
<rewrite>
<rules>
<rule name="Redirect to https" stopProcessing="true">
<match url=".*" />
<conditions>
<add input="{HTTPS}" pattern="off" ignoreCase="true" />
</conditions>
<action type="Redirect" url="https://{HTTP_HOST}{REQUEST_URI}" redirectType="Permanent" appendQueryString="false" />
</rule>
</rules>
</rewrite>
Reference: How to force HTTPS using a web.config file
I added SSL to my website
I added rewrite rule to redirect https.
Web.config
<rewrite>
<rules>
<rule name="HTTP to HTTPS redirect" stopProcessing="true">
<match url="(.*)" />
<conditions>
<add input="{HTTPS}" pattern="off" />
</conditions>
<action type="Redirect" url="https://{HTTP_HOST}/{R:1}"
redirectType="Permanent" />
</rule>
</rules>
</rewrite>
Now, I'am getting error :
Too Many Redirects
How can I solve this problem ?
I solved problem.
If you are using Cloudflare change option like this :
Go Cloudflare > Crypto > SSL > Full (strict)
After a few hour your problem will be solved.
I have created and ASP.NET Core project and i purchased a SSL for my website. I have created a redirect rules in my web.config to redirect my http to https. The issue i have is that every link on my website now have https which cause certificate issues since some of those links don't have ssl. This is what i've done:
<rewrite>
<rules>
<rule name="Redirect to https">
<match url="(.*)" />
<conditions>
<add input="{HTTPS}" pattern="Off" />
<add input="{REQUEST_METHOD}" pattern="^get$|^head$" />
<add input="{HTTP_HOST}" negate="true" pattern="localhost" />
</conditions>
<action type="Redirect" url="https://{HTTP_HOST}/{R:1}" />
</rule>
</rules>
</rewrite>
For example, my website domain is www.example.com. After enabling SSL on my project, my website is now https://www.example.com. I have some links on my website for my partners such as www.partner1.com. The problem is that now my partners link also have https in their url but their website does not have SSL certificate which means when i click on their links, i am redirected to a https url and therefore i have a certificate error page.
How can i set my domain to only have https and let my partners a href link still use http?
i would suggest you to use this same rule:
<rewrite>
<rules>
<clear />
<rule name="Redirect to https" stopProcessing="true"> <match url=".*" />
<conditions> <add input="{HTTPS}" pattern="off" ignoreCase="true" /> </conditions>
<action type="Redirect" url="https://{HTTP_HOST}{REQUEST_URI}" redirectType="Permanent" appendQueryString="false" />
</rule>
</rewrite>
because i am using same and i already check with your scenario it's working perfect..as you mentioned in your answer.
i created a link on my website page and set that a href to a http:// domain which is another website. its not changing and on click that link working fine. here is link code:
<a target="_blank" href="http:// www.jwoodmaker.com/">Test</a>
as i already send you link which have full details of this. this link
I have application which I have hosted in IIS 7.0.
Where I have to make sure that it works only on HTTPS and not on HTTP
so I have included below rule in my root config.
<rewrite>
<rules>
<rule name="HTTP to HTTPS redirect" stopProcessing="true">
<match url="(.*)" />
<conditions>
<add input="{HTTPS}" pattern="off" />
</conditions>
<action type="Redirect" url="https://{HTTP_HOST}{REQUEST_URI}" redirectType="Found" />
</rule>
</rules>
</rewrite>
After adding this rule when i tried to access my application I get below error:
Page has resulted in too many redirects. Clearing your cookies for
this site or allowing third-party cookies may fix the problem. If not,
it is possibly a server configuration issue and not a problem with
your computer. Here are some suggestions: Reload this web page later.
Learn more about this problem.
We have our ASP.NET application hosted on AWS with Elastic Load Balancing, and the rule in the question with the accepted answer did not work for us, and kept causing infinite redirects.
This is the rule that finally worked for us:
<rewrite>
<rules>
<rule name="HTTPS Rule behind AWS Elastic Load Balancer Rule" stopProcessing="true">
<match url="^(.*)$" ignoreCase="false" />
<conditions>
<add input="{HTTP_X_FORWARDED_PROTO}" pattern="^http$" ignoreCase="false" />
</conditions>
<action type="Redirect" url="https://{SERVER_NAME}{URL}" redirectType="Found" />
</rule>
</rules>
</rewrite>
Put below input condition:
<add input="{HTTPS}" pattern="on" />
Instead of:
<add input="{HTTPS}" pattern="off" />
My case, I needed to put like this:
<rewrite>
<rules>
<rule name="HTTP to HTTPS redirect" stopProcessing="true">
<match url="(.*)" ignoreCase="false" />
<conditions logicalGrouping="MatchAny">
<add input="{HTTP_X_FORWARDED_PROTO}" pattern="^http$" />
<add input="{HTTPS}" pattern="on" />
</conditions>
<action type="Redirect" url="https://{HTTP_HOST}{REQUEST_URI}" redirectType="Found" />
</rule>
</rules>
I also faced that problem. All requests to the server were HTTP.
In my case problem was that I use Cloudflare DNS.
There is SSL/TLS setting that by default SSL/TLS encryption mode is set to Flexible.
Make sure to change the mode to Full.
Also as was mentioned by SNag we had a site that is sitting behind an ELB on Amazon. Attempting to apply a rewrite rule without the following input header was causing infinite redirects. This appears to be a result of needing the input type being HTTP_X_FORWARDED_PROTO as in the following: <add input="{HTTP_X_FORWARDED_PROTO}" pattern="^http$" ignoreCase="false" />.
From AWS documentation "Your application or website can use the protocol stored in the X-Forwarded-Proto request header to render a response that redirects to the appropriate URL." We are using the ELB with DNS entries to forward to the server with the site on it.
For IIS 10 (Windows Server 2016) I have followed instructions from here which generate a slightly different XML configuration for the rewrite:
<rewrite>
<rules>
<rule name="HTTP 2 HTTPS" patternSyntax="Wildcard" stopProcessing="true">
<match url="*" />
<conditions logicalGrouping="MatchAny">
<add input="{HTTPS}" pattern="off" />
</conditions>
<action type="Redirect" url="https://{HTTP_HOST}{REQUEST_URI}" redirectType="Found" />
</rule>
</rules>
</rewrite>
The pattern is off and the match is only *.
I am using Liquid Web Cloud Sites, and ran into the exact same issue.
I tried the solution here, but it didn't work for what I needed because of this condition:
<add input="{HTTPS}" pattern="off" />
As the OP has it, this means is, "match and implement this rule when HTTPS is off". And the accepted solution for this question just inverts this, and matches the rule when HTTPS is on. It solved the infinite loop issue, but only because my rule was incorrectly matched - I actually only want to change the request to HTTPS when HTTPS is off. Thus none of my HTTP requests were getting forwarded.
Interestingly, none of my HTTPS requests were getting forwarded either, and from this (and a few other tests I did) I determined that although the browser shows HTTPS, the server is treating it like an HTTP request. Thus the server always believes it is receiving an HTTP request, and always ignored the rule (which now specified only match requests where HTTPS is on - i.e. never).
Hours of research and tests later, I deduced that its a similar issue as described here, summarised here:
To reduce costs [many hosting providers install the] SSL certificate on the TMG Gateway and this gateway is simply rewriting the request to standard HTTP when passing it to the actual web server. So by the time the request hits IIS and your web application it is a standard plain HTTP request.
.
TLDR;
Eventually I spoke to the team at Liquid Web who pointed me in the direction of a help article buried in their own site which solved the issue. They suggested I use the following rewrite rule which fixed it:
<system.webServer>
<rewrite>
<rules>
<rule name="Redirect to HTTPS" stopProcessing="true">
<match url=".*"/>
<conditions>
<add input="{HTTP_CLUSTER_HTTPS}" pattern="^on$" negate="true"/>
<add input="{HTTP_CLUSTER_HTTPS}" pattern=".+" negate="true"/>
</conditions>
<action type="Redirect" url="https://{HTTP_HOST}{SCRIPT_NAME}" redirectType="SeeOther"/>
</rule>
</rules>
</rewrite>
</system.webServer>
I hope this might work for others in a similar situation.
Original liquidweb help article
If you use cloudflare for SSL , put it on Full mode
Cloudflare -> SSL/TLS -> Overview -> Full
Figure
I figured out something regarding this issue. Basically, if the incoming request is HTTPS do nothing.
<rule name="No Redirect if https" enabled="true" stopProcessing="true">
<match url=".*" />
<conditions logicalGrouping="MatchAny" trackAllCaptures="false">
<add input="{HTTPS}" pattern="^ON$" />
</conditions>
<action type="None" />
</rule>
<rule name="Redirect to https" enabled="true" stopProcessing="true">
<match url="(.*)" />
<conditions logicalGrouping="MatchAll" trackAllCaptures="false">
<add input="{HTTP_HOST}" pattern="^\example\.com$" />
<add input="{HTTPS}" pattern="^OFF$" />
</conditions>
<action type="Redirect" url="https://{HTTP_HOST}{R:0}" />
</rule>
My issue is precisely the one presented here, and I've decided to try rewrite all https requests to http. I've searched long and hard but there doesn't seem to be a definitive way to achieve this - see these questions (no solutions): Redirect https to http using rewrite rule in webconfig file ; https://stackoverflow.com/questions/15214717/iis-rewrite-https-to-http-whilst-keeping-existing-https-rules
I've added the rewrite module to IIS, and tried the following in web.config:
<rewrite>
<rules>
<clear />
<rule name="force http" stopProcessing="true">
<match url="(.*)" />
<conditions>
<add input="{HTTPS}" pattern="off" ignoreCase="true" />
</conditions>
<action type="Redirect" url="http://{HTTP_HOST}{REQUEST_URI}" redirectType="Permanent" />
</rule>
</rules>
</rewrite>
But it still allows the user to access a non-https site with https (essentially accessing a different site).
How do I force all https requests to be http requests?
edit: I've also tried every suggested solution here with no luck. The url rewrite module is definitely successfully installed on IIS!
edit2: Tried the following without success:
<system.webServer>
<rewrite>
<rules>
<clear />
<rule name="force http" stopProcessing="true">
<match url="(.*)" />
<conditions logicalGrouping="MatchAll">
<add input="{HTTPS}" pattern="on" ignoreCase="true" />
<add input="{HTTP_HOST}" pattern="^(?:www)?\.test.site\.com$"
negate="true" ignoreCase="true" />
</conditions>
<action type="Redirect" url="http://{HTTP_HOST}{REQUEST_URI}"
redirectType="Permanent" />
</rule>
</rules>
</rewrite>
</system.webServer>
I restarted IIS and the rewrite rules reflect in inetmgr. Loading https://test.site.com/ still loads with https.
A couple of things. First the rewrite needs to process when HTTPS is on and not off. Second, for the application that needs to run over HTTPS you will need to exclude it from the rewrite. The revised rewrite rule should look something like this:
<rewrite>
<rules>
<clear />
<rule name="force http" stopProcessing="true">
<match url="(.*)" />
<conditions logicalGrouping="MatchAll">
<add input="{HTTPS}" pattern="on" ignoreCase="true" />
<add input="{HTTP_HOST}" pattern="^example\.com$"
negate="true" ignoreCase="true" />
</conditions>
<action type="Redirect" url="http://{HTTP_HOST}{REQUEST_URI}"
redirectType="Permanent" />
</rule>
</rules>
</rewrite>
This should keep https://example.com/login on https and all other URL's will get redirected to http. For example, https://test.example.com/login will be redirected to http://test.example.com/login. This rewrite rule needs to be placed on the site with the HTTPS binding for the rewrite to work properly.
Please be aware when using a 301 permanent redirect some browsers won't make the request out to the server on subsequent hits so after changing the rule a browser cache clear is required. The network tab may even lie and say the request is made but an external tool like Fiddler or Wireshark will let you know for sure.