IIS redirecting made easy
Redirecting web traffic in IIS has been done for ages. Most people use the URL Rewrite plugin to achieve this. It provides a relatively easy way to create redirect rules.
Most rules I see are very specific with the exact domain name in the rule and manually created over and over again for each project. Fortunately there are rules crafted in such a way that they can be applied for every website. This saves me a lot of time and hopefully now yours.
Let me share the 2 most commonly used ones:
Prepending www to 2nd level domain names
Credits to Scott Forsyth
<rule name="Prepend www to 2nd level domain names" enabled="true" stopProcessing="true">
<match url=".*" />
<conditions trackAllCaptures="true">
<add input="{HTTP_HOST}" pattern="^([^.]+\.[^.]+)$" />
<add input="{CACHE_URL}" pattern="^(.+)://" />
</conditions>
<action type="Redirect" url="{C:2}://www.{C:1}/{R:0}" />
</rule>HTTP to HTTPS
<rule name="Redirect to https" stopProcessing="true">
<match url="(.*)"/>
<conditions>
<add input="{HTTPS}" pattern="off" ignoreCase="true"/>
</conditions>
<action type="Redirect" url="https://{HTTP_HOST}{REQUEST_URI}" />
</rule>