Hi Graeme,

For something like this I would look to include a http -> https redirect within the web.config file, so it captures all http requests to the site.

You'll need to install the URL Rewrite module found here for it to function, and there's a good guide to doing it in IIS 8 here.

Hope that helps!

Info on where to add a rule in your web.config here: https://our.umbraco.com/documentation/Reference/routing/iisrewriterules/

Here's a rule you can use to remove www and force https:

<rules>
    <rule name="Remove www" stopProcessing="true">
  <match url="(.*)" ignoreCase="true" />
  <conditions logicalGrouping="MatchAll">
    <add input="{HTTP_HOST}" pattern="^www\.(.+)$" />
  </conditions>
  <action type="Redirect" url="http://{C:1}/{R:0}" appendQueryString="true" redirectType="Permanent" />
</rule>
<rule name="HTTP to HTTPS redirect" stopProcessing="true">
  <match url="(.*)" />
  <conditions>
    <add input="{HTTPS}" pattern="off" ignoreCase="true" />
    <add input="{HTTP_HOST}" pattern="localhost" negate="true" />
  </conditions>
  <action type="Redirect" url="https://{HTTP_HOST}/{R:1}" redirectType="Permanent" />
</rule> 
</rules>

Thanks for the replies. I have in fact already tried to install the IIS URL Rewrite module mentioned but it won't install properly. The application pools stop as soon as I try to run a website. I've tried all the fixes mentioned online without any joy.

Hence looking for other workarounds such as maybe using this package without having to install the iis module

I believe most, if not all, of the packages out there utilize that module as well.

Are you getting errors when you try to install it? Also, can you provide any information on your hosting environment? All of our shared hosts, and even most of our other dedicated windows hosts have this module installed by default.

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