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Amir Saleem
Amir Saleem

Reputation: 3140

How to Enable SSL offloading on IIS Reverse Proxy

I have just enabled Reverse Proxy for my NodeJS application on Windows Server by enabling Application Request Routing (ARR) and editing the web.config file by following this article:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/iis/extensions/url-rewrite-module/reverse-proxy-with-url-rewrite-v2-and-application-request-routing

Now, everything is working fine, I am able to access my NodeJS application running on localhost from an external client outside the server. I want to enforce Https connection to this reverse proxy I've just created. How do I achieve this?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 8941

Answers (1)

Abraham Qian
Abraham Qian

Reputation: 7522

IIS URL Rewrite extension could accomplish this task. Please Install the extension.
https://www.iis.net/downloads/microsoft/url-rewrite
In order to force HTTP connection to https connection, please add the below Url rules in the webconfig file which can be recognized by IIS.

<system.webServer>
           <rewrite>
            <rules>
              <rule name="Force SSL (https)" enabled="true" stopProcessing="false">
                <match url="(.*)" ignoreCase="false" />
                <conditions logicalGrouping="MatchAll" trackAllCaptures="false">
                  <add input="{HTTPS}" pattern="off" />
                </conditions>
                <action type="Redirect" url="https://example.com/{REQUEST_URI}" redirectType="Permanent" />
              </rule>
            </rules>
          </rewrite>
    </system.webServer>

Alternatively, we could manually set up the rule by using the URL Rewrite extension after installation.
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Feel free to let me know if there is anything I can help with.

Upvotes: 6

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