URL Rewrite to https on certain URLs - http

Question

I need to redirect http requests, to https. But only when my site is accessed via the normal URL. i.e. www.accufinance.com
When I access it in debug, locally, I connect using localhost - and don't want the rewrite to happen (As I don't have SSL locally).
I am trying this:
<rewrite>
<rules>
<clear />
<rule name="Redirect to https" stopProcessing="true">
<match url="^accufinance.com$" ignoreCase="true"/>
<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>
But the rewrite rule doesn't happen. If I use (.*) as the match URL, it works fine, but catches ALL connections. How can I make the rule only fire when there is 'accufinance.com' in the URL?

Answer 1

You need to check HTTP_HOST with a condition to match your domain name.
The directive match for url param only contains what's after your domain name.
Example: http://www.domain.tld/some/url/here.ext
HTTP_HOST = www.domain.tld
REQUEST_URI = /some/url/here.ext
You can use this rule to do what you want
<rule name="Redirect to https" stopProcessing="true">
<match url=".*" ignoreCase="true" />
<conditions>
<add input="{HTTP_HOST}" pattern="^(www\.)?accufinance\.com$" ignoreCase="true" />
<add input="{HTTPS}" pattern="off" ignoreCase="true" />
</conditions>
<action type="Redirect" url="https://{HTTP_HOST}{REQUEST_URI}" redirectType="Permanent" appendQueryString="false" />
</rule>
Please note you'll need to clear your browser's cache before trying again (your old rule is still in cache because of your permanent redirect)

Answer 2

The regular expression ^accufinance.com$ is extremely restrictive. The ^ indicates that it must match all the way to the beginning (i.e. nothing else precedes it), and the $ requires that nothing follow it all the way to the end. As such, the match will only succeed when the request URL is exactly accufinance.com.
Try removing the ^ and $. Or, you can explicitly allow parts of the URL before and after the desired filter, as in .*accufinance\.com.*.