redirect from root to subfolder

Question

User-388594962 posted

We have our Accounting/CRM platform that we need to redirect from the root website to a subfolder. 

http://company.domain.com redirects to https://company.domain.com/subfolder1

Our problem we just found in testing using the built-in redirect option in IIS 10 is there is a desktop app and when we click the link to access it from https://company.domain.com/subfolder1 we are getting a 404 error. Upon further examination we determined that the redirect is causing it to go to https://company.domain.com/subfolder1/subfolder2/application.file

correct address should be https://company.domain.com/subfolder2/application.file

Application support told me to use URL rewrite. So i have installed the IIS URL rewrite onto the web server.  I followed this guide to setup the redirect from http to https which is working.

https://www.namecheap.com/support/knowledgebase/article.aspx/9953/38/iis-redirect-http-to-https/ 

What I am stuck on is redirecting from the root website to http://company.domain.com to https://company.domain.com/subfolder1

Anyhelp would be appreciated. 

Answer 1

User-388594962 posted

I finally got it to work. I setup 2 rules like so to get it to redirect all http to https requests and go from the root to the subfolder. 

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<configuration>
    <system.webServer>
        <httpRedirect enabled="false" destination="" />
        <rewrite>
            <rules>
                <clear />
                <rule name="Redirect to Https" stopProcessing="true">
                    <match url="(.*)" />
                    <conditions logicalGrouping="MatchAll" trackAllCaptures="false">
                        <add input="{HTTPS}" pattern="^OFF$" />
                    </conditions>
                    <action type="Redirect" url="https://{HTTP_HOST}{REQUEST_URI}" />
                </rule>
                <rule name="Root to Subdirectory" stopProcessing="true">
                    <match url="^$" />
                    <conditions logicalGrouping="MatchAll" trackAllCaptures="false" />
                    <action type="Redirect" url="/subfolder1" />
                </rule>
            </rules>
        </rewrite>
    </system.webServer>
</configuration>

Answer 2

User1065476709 posted

Hi EDSA-CTO,

I'm so glad that the problem has been resolved. It is so appreciated if you can mark your solution as answer.

Best regards,

Sam