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Using URL Rewrite IIS module to change 'http://' to 'https://'

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Tom Melkonian

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12/14/2021 12:02 PM

Hi -

We're looking at installing the IIS 'URL Rewrite' module on our IIS webserver, in order to be able to rewrite URLs from 'http://' to 'https://' on the server level.

Has anyone out there done this with DNN? Isf so, are there any concerns about it? Any thing we should know?

Thanks

-Tom

Tycho de Waard (SU)

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12/14/2021 12:34 PM

 &lt;rule name="Https Redirect" stopProcessing="true"&gt;
                &lt;match url="(.*)" /&gt;
                &lt;conditions&gt;
                    &lt;add input="{HTTPS}" pattern="off" /&gt;
                    &lt;add input="{HTTP_HOST}" pattern=".*" /&gt;
                &lt;/conditions&gt;
                &lt;action type="Redirect" url="https://{C:0}/{R:0}" /&gt;
            &lt;/rule&gt;

Is what I use. So, not on IIS level but application level.

Regards,
Tycho de Waard

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RichardHowells

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Posts:46

12/14/2021 1:04 PM

I use IIS rewrite on all my sites. It was trivial and it just worked.

Thanks,
Richard
www.dynamisys.co.uk

Tom Melkonian

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Posts:169

12/14/2021 1:25 PM

Thanks for the replies -
Just trying to gather as much info about this in case there are any issues we need to know about.
Thanks Tycho - We were thinking to do this on the IIS level unless there is some reason not to, is there any particular reason you chose to do so on the application level?
Good to hear that it seems to work with no issue Richard! Thanks for letting me know.

I was also curious about the 'URL Rewrite ' tag inside the 'modules' tag I see inside our DNN web.configs. It seems like that is default, Do you know how that would relate to the IIS URL Rewrite? Are they completely separate entities?

I appreciate all your help!
Tom

Tycho de Waard (SU)

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12/14/2021 1:43 PM

Simple reason is that I do not have IIS Access (I outsourced that) and I do have web.config access. Combining that with FTP allows me for a quick implementation, control over cache and swift roll back if needed.

(I see the mark up was a bit scrambled by the forum but hopefully, you get the concept. Otherwise I'll make a screendump)

Regards,
Tycho de Waard

Tjep's digital agency
We just love DNN
https://www.tjeps.com

Tom Melkonian

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Posts:169

12/14/2021 1:57 PM

Thanks Tycho -
No problem I can get the full markup from here if needed.

Tom Melkonian

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Posts:169

12/14/2021 2:24 PM

Do you know anything about the URLRewrite module tag inside webconfig, and whether that relates to the IIS URL Rewrite module in any way?

RichardHowells

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Posts:46

12/14/2021 2:37 PM

That is a DNN component. Unrelated to the IIS URL Rewrite module

Thanks,
Richard
www.dynamisys.co.uk

Mitchel Sellers

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Posts:97

12/14/2021 11:49 PM

Many people use the IIS level redirections, I encourage folks to look at using DNN behaviors for this, however, DNN behaviors do not update things such as images etc.

Just be aware if using IIS you have 2 things rewriting URL's, you have DNN doing it and IIS and getting "rule happy" on the IIS side can result in fun times diagnosing.

Mitchel Sellers
Technology Advisory Group Leader
CEO @ IowaComputerGurus, Inc. a DNN & .NET Solutions Provider
Technical Blog: MitchelSellers.com

Tom Melkonian

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Posts:169

12/15/2021 7:40 PM

Thank you all for the info . I appreciate it.

Tom

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