PasasgePoint/IIS with SSL and redirecting http to https

PasasgePoint/IIS with SSL and redirecting http to https

Prerequisites
1) This document assumes you've laready setup passagepoint with IIS.
if not, pls review here and set up IIS with passagepoint first:



SSL Certificate
Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) is a standard security technology for establishing an encrypted link between a server and a client and in this case a web server (website) and a browser.

A SSL cert must be purchased from a SSL cert vendor, such as Thawte, Verisign, GoDaddy, etc.

First, decide on which vendor to buy the cert, then the cert is installed on the IIS/PassagePoint website as per the cert vendor's instructions.

As each vendor's SSL cert may be different in the installation process, depending on which vendor you choose and which type of SSL cert you choose, the instructions to install and support for the SSL cert install would come from the SSL cert vendor.


Configuring URL rewrite to accept https

In the IIS manager click on the passagepoint site, and double click on "URL Rewrite"




Click on the URL rewrite rule and hit Edit




Scroll all the way down till you see the Rewrite URL




Modify the Rewrite URL from 

current Rewrite URL
{C:1}://localhost:2080/{R:1}

New Rewrite URL
http://localhost:2080/{R:1}




Hit the Apply to save the settings.






Redirecting http to https or Force HTTPS
This is extremely useful where when a user types in http://mysite, IIS automatically redirects the user to https://mysite

pls see the attached "How To" document -  HTTP to HTTPS document

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