Lieven Cardoen

First you’ll need to install the URL rewrite module.  See link for detailed information on URL rewrite.

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<rewrite>
    <rules>
	<rule name="Redirect to https" enabled="true">
	    <match url="(.*)" />
	    <conditions>
	        <add input="{SERVER_PORT}" pattern="443" negate="true" />
	    </conditions>
	    <action type="Redirect" url="https://{HTTP_HOST}{REQUEST_URI}" 
                    appendQueryString="false" />
	</rule>
    </rules>
</rewrite>

This rule will redirect all Http calls to Https, except calls to Https (otherwise you would end up in an endless loop). Some good info on Url Rewrite Module can be found here.

I you haven’t installed the Url Rewrite Module, your site will crash on the rewrite section.

Another thing we noticed is that debugging in VS2010/2008 with rewrite enabled (enabled =”true”) doesn’t work. Seems to be a bug. More info here and here.

I have these four sections in my web.config that needed to be defined out of the web.config. This is very usefull when doing an update at a customer’s environment. The only thing I need to copy is the web.config itself without the four other config files that are specific to the environment running at the customer.

In Web.config:

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  <log4net configSource="WebLog4Net.config" /> 
  <connectionStrings configSource="WebConnectionString.config" />
  <SubSonicService configSource="WebSubSonicService.config" /> 
  <appSettings configSource="WebAppSettings.config" />

WebConnectionStrings.config:

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<connectionStrings>
  <add name="TLVSRVDevConnection" 
       connectionString="..."/>
  <add name="TLVSRVProdConnection" 
       connectionString="..."/>
</connectionStrings>