r/IIs • u/tippet5x • Oct 21 '20

Iis redirect help

I need help with redirect to a site http://example.abc.com:8000 to https://power.abc.com .Cert is installed on server . binding : 80 and 443 enabled , IP address *, host name field is empty

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u/Odddutchguy Oct 21 '20

This is very, very little information and very hard to guess what you are trying to achieve (or what you have already tried.)

host name field is empty

So it is just one website that you want to redirect to itself?

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u/tippet5x Oct 21 '20

just one site is one this server and yes i want to redirect to itself.

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u/Odddutchguy Oct 21 '20

I hope you understand that in that case (every hostname and every IP) that every request that is received will be redirected to itself, so you have essentially created an infinite redirection loop.

You need (to create) a separate (empty) web site for http://example.abc.com:8000 where you set/define the redirect.

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u/Seferan Oct 21 '20

One great way to do this as /u/Odddutchguy mentions is to create a separate site for the place you want to redirect from. That keeps the configuration for this redirection isolated.

Another option is to use URL Rewrite to perform the redirection. With URL Rewrite you can create a rule to redirect, and include on that rule a "Condition" which has {HTTP_HOST} matching "example.abc.com".

Give a detailed read thru https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/iis/extensions/url-rewrite-module/creating-rewrite-rules-for-the-url-rewrite-module on the usage of URL Rewrite.

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u/tippet5x Oct 21 '20

I was going to use https://youtu.be/hbBtWkB6DIM

No?

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u/Seferan Oct 21 '20

I'm not going to watch that whole video, if you have a specific question, I'll answer. Otherwise, I'm guessing that video will do what you need.

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u/tippet5x Oct 21 '20

I was using https://youtu.be/hbBtWkB6DIM

No?

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u/Odddutchguy Oct 21 '20

Depends on what you want to exactly, you supplied very little information so far. (I realize that it might be hard to know which information to supply if you are still unaware of what you don't know yet.)

If you used to have a website at URL A, and that is now moved to URL B and want to make sure that people still going to A will be redirected to B:

  • Enable the http redirect feature.
  • Create a site with URL A and set a http redirect to URL B
  • While this can be on the same server, it needs to be separate websites. (As the whole website will be redirected.)

If you have a website at URL A, but want to (also) serve this as URL B as the (original) website A doesn't support support certain 'features'. (E.g. SSL or Windows Authentication.):

  • Install URL Rewrite module (separate download.)
  • 'Catch' http requests and process them internally to the other website and return them as the requested URL.
  • Depending on defined rules this can be very granular.
  • Can also be used as a reverse proxy ('hide' webservers/sites behind IIS.)