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votes

I want to add the proper 301 permanent redirect rule in IIS 8.5. I've added the following rules but it is not working.

 <rule name="Redirect top domains with non-www to www" stopProcessing="true">
          <match url="(.*)" />
          <conditions logicalGrouping="MatchAll" trackAllCaptures="false">
            <add input="{HTTP_HOST}" pattern=".*localhost.*" negate="true" />
            <add input="{HTTP_HOST}" pattern=".*stage\..*" negate="true" />
            <add input="{HTTP_HOST}" pattern=".*dev\..*" negate="true" />
            <add input="{HTTP_HOST}" pattern="^(http:\/\/){0,1}(www\.){0,1}([^\.]+)\.([^\.]+)$" ignoreCase="true" />
          </conditions>
          <action type="Redirect" url="https://www.{C:3}.{C:4}" redirectType="Permanent" />
        </rule>

Conditions

To summarize, every URL should be in HTTPS and should have "www." prefix.

NOTE: I have installed URL Rewrite Module in IIS.

Can anyone please help me to achieve this?

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1 Answers

3
votes

I managed it by adding two URL rewrite rules in Web.config file:

  1. For redirecting non-www to https://www.{domain}.com/...
  2. Redirecting HTTP to HTTPS

    <rule name="Redirect top domains with non-www to www" stopProcessing="true">
          <match url="(.*)" />
          <conditions logicalGrouping="MatchAll" trackAllCaptures="false">
            <add input="{HTTP_HOST}" pattern=".*localhost.*" negate="true" />
            <add input="{HTTP_HOST}" pattern=".*stage\..*" negate="true" />
            <add input="{HTTP_HOST}" pattern=".*dev\..*" negate="true" />
            <add input="{HTTP_HOST}" pattern="^([^\.]+)\.([^\.]+)$" />
          </conditions>
          <action type="Redirect" url="https://www.{HTTP_HOST}/{R:1}" redirectType="Permanent" />
          <serverVariables>
            <set name="Redirect" value="false" />
          </serverVariables>
     </rule>
    
    
    <rule name="Force HTTPS" enabled="true" stopProcessing="true">
          <match url="(.*)" ignoreCase="false" />
          <conditions logicalGrouping="MatchAll" trackAllCaptures="false">
            <add input="{HTTP_HOST}" pattern=".*localhost.*" negate="true" />
            <add input="{HTTP_HOST}" pattern=".*stage\..*" negate="true" />
            <add input="{HTTP_HOST}" pattern=".*dev\..*" negate="true" />
            <add input="{HTTPS}" pattern="off" />
          </conditions>
          <action type="Redirect" url="https://{HTTP_HOST}/{R:1}" appendQueryString="true" redirectType="Permanent" />
     </rule>
    

All the conditions with negate="true" are used for exclusion. Hence all URLs which contains "localhost", "stage", and "dev" are excluded from URL rewrite. You can remove these conditions if not required.

Read more about negate attribute at http://www.iis.net/learn/extensions/url-rewrite-module/creating-rewrite-rules-for-the-url-rewrite-module