I'm struggling to get the web.config file working for redirects - I'm doing this for the first time. I've been trying plenty of different codes which I found on this site and elsewhere.
We have HTTPS site and I need to redirect HTTP url-s to HTTPS. The website is written in HTML and we have Windows hosting.
I set up a web.config file and added the code below.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<configuration>
<system.webServer>
<rewrite>
<rules>
<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}" />
</rule>
</rules>
</rewrite>
</system.webServer>
</configuration>
Am I missing something here?
Or does it need some time to take effect?
Many thanks in advance!
Kadri
From Scott Hanselman's blog a few years ago, you should try this:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<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:0}" redirectType="Permanent" />
</rule>
</rules>
</rewrite>
</system.webServer>
</configuration>
Related
I am using the Rewrite tool for ASP.NET to redirect from http to hpps. I want to reroute to
https://services.net/ExitInterview/home/about
But currently it is routing to
https://services.net/home/about
Below is my redirect rule:
<rule name="HTTP to HTTPS redirect" stopProcessing="true">
<match url="(.*)" />
<conditions>
<add input="{HTTPS}" pattern="off" ignoreCase="true" />
</conditions>
<action type="Redirect" url="https://{HTTP_HOST}/{R:1}"
redirectType="Permanent" />
</rule>`
Can I mix the "HTTP_HOST" text with hard-coded text in the rule string? Or is there another way?
I don't want to hard code the url because it changes with local, staging, and production.
<rule name="HTTP to HTTPS redirect" ="true">
<match url="(.*)" />
<conditions>
<add input="{HTTPS}" pattern="off" ignoreCase="true" />
</conditions>
<action type="Redirect" url="https://{HTTP_HOST}/ExitInterview/{R:1}"
redirectType="Permanent" />
</rule>
Give this a try
This should do what you want in terms of redirecting to HTTPS from HTTP in a web.config file:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<configuration>
<system.web>
<httpRuntime executionTimeout="180" />
</system.web>
<system.webServer>
<httpErrors errorMode="Detailed" existingResponse="PassThrough" />
<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>
</system.webServer>
</configuration>
I use this exact snippet for a webserver that enforces HTTPS redirection, but that also seems to be pretty close to what you have. Are you sure you have configured the structure of the web.config file correctly? - I remember running into issues when I would leave out something.
I'm attempting to do a rewrite rule for a non-aspx site. It's just html files.
Here is what I have in the web.config at the moment. I have tried various rules and both integrated and classic pipeline mode yet nothing works.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<rewrite>
<rules>
<rule name="Redirect domain.com to www" patternSyntax="Wildcard" stopProcessing="true">
<match url="*" />
<conditions>
<add input="{HTTP_HOST}" pattern="eyeswidewhat.net" />
</conditions>
<action type="Redirect" url="http://www.eyeswidewhat.net/{R:0}" />
</rule>
</rules>
</rewrite>
Try this. This will redirect non-www to www.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<configuration>
<system.webServer>
<rewrite>
<rules>
<rule name="RedirectToWWW" stopProcessing="false">
<match url=".*" />
<conditions>
<add input="{HTTP_HOST}" pattern="^eyeswidewhat\.net$" />
</conditions>
<action type="Redirect" url="http://www.eyeswidewhat.net/{R:0}" />
</rule>
</rules>
</rewrite>
</system.webServer>
</configuration>
I am forcing SSL on my entire site with the following code on my web.config file;
<system.webServer>
<rewrite>
<rules>
<rule name="Redirect HTTP to HTTPS" stopProcessing="true">
<match url="(.*)"/>
<conditions>
<add input="{HTTPS}" pattern="^OFF$"/>
</conditions>
<action type="Redirect" url="https://{HTTP_HOST}/{R:1}" redirectType="SeeOther"/>
</rule>
</rules>
</rewrite>
</system.webServer>
but what I would like to do is to force ssl only the ~/purchase/ and ~/account/ path and under them. what should be the match url for that?
NOTE Regular Expressions also would work for me here as well as wildcard.
You should use this pattern (this will work for /purchase/something as well as /account/something-else):
^((purchase|account)/.*)$
You have to remember, that URL should have no leading slash /.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<configuration>
<system.webServer>
<rewrite>
<rules>
<rule name="Force HTTPS" stopProcessing="true">
<match url="^((purchase|account)/.*)$" />
<conditions>
<add input="{HTTPS}" pattern="^OFF$" />
</conditions>
<action type="Redirect" url="https://{HTTP_HOST}/{R:1}" redirectType="Permanent" />
</rule>
</rules>
</rewrite>
</system.webServer>
</configuration>
you would do something like this (2 separate rules for simplicity)
<match url="/purchase/(.*)"/>
I use a standard web.config file for my projects that are hosted on Windows servers. It takes care of 2 tasks.
It redirects the non-www version of the site to the www version.
It redirects the index file to the root.
See below:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<configuration>
<system.webServer>
<modules runAllManagedModulesForAllRequests="true" />
<rewrite>
<rules>
<rule name="CanonicalHostNameRule1" stopProcessing="true">
<match url="index\.asp(?:l)?" />
<conditions>
<add input="{HTTP_HOST}" pattern="example\.com$" />
</conditions>
<action type="Redirect" url="http://www.example.com/" />
</rule>
<rule name="CanonicalHostNameRule2" stopProcessing="true">
<match url="(.*)" />
<conditions>
<add input="{HTTP_HOST}" pattern="^example\.com$" />
</conditions>
<action type="Redirect" url="http://www.example.com/{R:1}" />
</rule>
</rules>
</rewrite>
</system.webServer>
</configuration>
This works great, except for 1 problem. The index redirect is redirecting all sub-directories to the main, index.
For example:
http://www.example.com/index.asp is redirecting to http://www.example.com like it should.
But, http://www.example.com/about/index.asp is also redirecting to http://www.example.com. I would like it to redirect to http://www.example.com/about/
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Well, after getting no response here, I posted on various .Net forums and finally got an answer. This rule will fix it:
<rule name="redirect index.asp" stopProcessing="true">
<match url="^(\w*/)?index\.asp" />
<conditions>
<add input="{HTTP_HOST}" pattern="domain\.com$" />
</conditions>
<action type="Redirect" url="http://www.domain.com/{R:1}" />
</rule>
I am using the following web.config file to redirect the non-www version of a site to the www version. However, I would also like to have it strip the file name of the index file as well.
For example:
redirecting www.example.com/index.html to www.example.com
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<configuration>
<system.webServer>
<modules runAllManagedModulesForAllRequests="true" />
<rewrite>
<rules>
<rule name="CanonicalHostNameRule" stopProcessing="true">
<match url="(.*)" />
<conditions>
<add input="{HTTP_HOST}" pattern="^www\.example\.com$" negate="true" />
</conditions>
<action type="Redirect" url="http://www.example.com/{R:1}" />
</rule>
</rules>
</rewrite>
</system.webServer>
</configuration>
Edit:
Here is my updated config file. But, its causing a 500 error, now.
See CodingGorilla's answer below :)
In order to get rid of the index.html after the redirect, drop the {R:1}. But then you will need to modify that rule so that it triggers only for /index.html requests and create a new rule that triggers on other pages that includes the {R:1} so that requests for example.com/mypage.html will still get redirected properly.
Edit:
Edit #2
And the final answer is!
Based on our chat conversation, I think this is the final rule set:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<configuration>
<system.webServer>
<modules runAllManagedModulesForAllRequests="true" />
<rewrite>
<rules>
<rule name="CanonicalHostNameRule1" stopProcessing="true">
<match url="index\.htm(?:l)?" />
<conditions>
<add input="{HTTP_HOST}" pattern="example\.com$" />
</conditions>
<action type="Redirect" url="http://www.example.com/" />
</rule>
<rule name="CanonicalHostNameRule2" stopProcessing="true">
<match url="(.*)" />
<conditions>
<add input="{HTTP_HOST}" pattern="^example\.com$" />
</conditions>
<action type="Redirect" url="http://www.example.com/{R:1}" />
</rule>
</rules>
</rewrite>
</system.webServer>
</configuration>