If you already have an SSL certificate on your website and you need all the HTTP visitors to be automatically redirected to the secured (HTTPS) version of the website to make sure the communications are encrypted, here is the how-to for this purpose. Please follow these steps.
Our shared hosting is using Windows Server systems with IIS. After the SSL certificate is installed on your website, you may add a URL redirect rule in the web.config file for automatic HTTPS redirection.
> Please open the web.config file, using your text editor.
> The URL rewrite rule for HTTPS redirection to be added is as the following...
<configuration>
<system.webserver>
<rewrite>
<rules>
<rule name="HTTP to HTTPS redirect" stopProcessing="true">
<match url="(.*)" />
<conditions>
<add input="{HTTPS}" pattern="off" ignoreCase="true" />
</conditions>
<action type="Redirect" redirectType="Found" url="https://{HTTP_HOST}/{R:1}" />
</rule>
</rules>
</rewrite>
</system.webserver>
</configuration>
version 2
<system.webServer>
<rewrite>
<rules>
<rule name="http redirect to https" stopProcessing="true">
<match url="(.*)" />
<conditions>
<add input="{HTTPS}" pattern="^OFF$" />
<add input="{HTTPS_HOST}" pattern="^(localhost)" negate="true" />
</conditions>
<action type="Redirect" url="https://{HTTP_HOST}/{R:1}" />
</rule>
</rules>
</rewrite>
</system.webServer>
> Simply please copy the rule to your web.config file and save the change.
> Please upload the saved web.config file to the webserver that hosts your website through FTP or via File Manager of your control panel account.
> The new rule takes effect immediately when the file has been uploaded.
