Redirecting HTTPS
We built a site for a client to advertise a new block of apartments they had built. The apartments have now all been sold so we have been asked to forward the domain to another domain until there is a future use for it.
We have tried to do this by setting up a 301 redirect on our server - this works great for HTTP requests (both with and without WWW) but HTTPS requests fail. Can anyone offer us any tips?
here are the 2 web config files we have tried:
WEB CONFIG 1:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<configuration>
<rewrite>
<rules>
<rule name="Redirect to http" stopProcessing="true">
<match url="(.*)" />
<conditions>
<add input="{HTTPS}" pattern="off" ignoreCase="true" />
<add input="{REQUEST_URI}" pattern="(/\w*[/ | \w]+\.aspx)" />
</conditions>
<action type="Redirect" url="http://{HTTP_HOST}{REQUEST_URI}" redirectType="Permanent" appendQueryString="false" />
</rule>
</rules>
</rewrite>
<location path="index.html">
<system.webServer>
<httpRedirect destination="https://WEBFORWARDINGDOMAIN.co.uk/" />
</system.webServer>
</location>
WEB CONFIG 2
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<configuration>
<location path="index.html">
<system.webServer>
<httpRedirect enabled="true" destination="https://WEBFORWARDINGDOMAIN.co.uk/" childOnly="true" httpResponseStatus="Permanent" />
</system.webServer>
</location>
</configuration>
Solution 1:
Both of your configurations are applying the HTTP Redirect on the index.html file directly. This effectively causes the redirect to only happen if someone goes directly to http://yoursite.co.uk/index.html or https://yoursite.co.uk/index.html.
Try the following in your root web.config and take out the IIS URL Rewrite rule that you have.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<configuration>
<system.webServer>
<httpRedirect enabled="true" destination="https://WEBFORWARDINGDOMAIN.co.uk/" />
</system.webServer>
</configuration>