Redirect to https through url rewrite in IIS within elastic beanstalk's load balancer

Question

How do you use IIS\'s url rewrite module to force users to use ssl while you are behind an elastic beanstalk load balancer?

Answer 1

Firstly I want to thank Ross for his original answer, it set me on my way to building up an IIS URL Rewrite rule that worked for me by using my existing HTTP to HTTPS redirect rule that I used before my website was behind an AWS Elastic Load Balancer.

This rule allows you to access your site locally within Visual Studio or on the server on port 80 without having to access over HTTPS, so you only have to have a binding for port 80 on the server. It doesn't suffer from the things that others have mentioned (Duplicated querystring etc.).

I personally haven't had any issue with the health check, I didn't need to create a file on the server for the elastic load balancer to ping. I have my load balancer set to health check on TCP:80 and it works.