Many hosting control panel Windows servers redirects incoming requests as http automatically as https, but some hosting control panels and when they run the site via non-panel IIS don’t support http – https redirections. In these cases, you need to redirect via your web.config file or via IIS. In this article, we will go through redirection operation step-by-step.
Firstly, connect to the server and IIS.
- Find your website under Sites at the left menu and click “URL Rewrite” button.
- Click “Add Rule(s)” button on the right menu.
- Click “Blank Rule” button on the pop-up window.
- You can fill “name” field in the pop-up window as you wish. Type ^OFF$ to the pattern section.
- Come to the Condition section and click “Add” button. Type {HTTPS} to the Condition input section and ^OFF$ to the Pattern section in the pop-up window, and then click “OK”.
Condition input – Pattern
- In the end, come to the Action section and select “Redirect” as “Action Type”, type https://{HTTP_HOST}/{R:1} to the Redirect URL section and select 303 as “Redirect type”.
- Your actions are complete, now the only thing you need to do is to apply the actions you’ve done. Click “Apply” button on the right menu.
