IIS7 URL Rewriting: How not to drop HTTPS protocol from rewritten URL?

Question

I'm working on a website that's using IIS 7's URL rewriting feature to do a permanent redirect from example.com to www.example.com, as well as rewrites from similar domain names to the "main" one, such as from www.examples.com to www.example.com.

This rewrite rule - shown below - has worked well for sometime now. However, we recently added HTTPS support and noticed that if users visit one of the URLs to be rewritten to www.example.com then HTTPS is dropped. For instance, if a user visits https://example.com they get redirected to http://www.example.com, whereas we would like them to be sent to https://www.example.com.

Here is the rewrite rule of interest (in Web.config):

<rule name="Canonical Host Name" stopProcessing="true">
    <match url="(.*)" />

    <conditions logicalGrouping="MatchAny">
        <add input="{HTTP_HOST}" pattern="^example\.com$" />
        <add input="{HTTP_HOST}" pattern="^(www\.)?example\.net$" />
        <add input="{HTTP_HOST}" pattern="^(www\.)?example\.info$" />
        <add input="{HTTP_HOST}" pattern="^(www\.)?examples\.com$" />
    </conditions>

    <action type="Redirect" url="http://www.example.com/{R:1}" redirectType="Permanent" />
</rule>

As you can see, the action element's url attribute points directly to http://, so I get why https://example.com is redirected to http://www.example.com. My question is, how do I fix this? I tried (naively) to just drop the http:// part from the url attribute, but that didn't work.

Thanks!

Answer 1

Figured out the answer with some help from my colleagues.

I needed to use multiple rules with a condition on {HTTPS}. Note the {HTTPS} condition in the rules below.

<rule name="Canonical Host Name (HTTP)" stopProcessing="true">
    <match url="(.*)" />

    <conditions logicalGrouping="MatchAny">
        <add input="{HTTPS}" pattern="OFF" />
        <add input="{HTTP_HOST}" pattern="^example\.com$" />
    </conditions>

    <action type="Redirect" url="http://www.example.com/{R:1}" redirectType="Permanent" />
</rule>

<rule name="Canonical Host Name (HTTPS)" stopProcessing="true">
    <match url="(.*)" />

    <conditions logicalGrouping="MatchAny">
        <add input="{HTTPS}" pattern="ON" />
        <add input="{HTTP_HOST}" pattern="^example\.com$" />
    </conditions>

    <action type="Redirect" url="https://www.example.com/{R:1}" redirectType="Permanent" />
</rule>

I then repeated the rule pair above for the alternate domain names.