Require HTTPS or SSL with URL Rewrite

Back in 2016, I was trying to get an IIS app to run locally

I got this error:
HTTP Error 500.19 - Internal Server Error
The requested page cannot be accessed because the related configuration data for the page is invalid.

I removed the content of the web.config inside the root node. I added them back in a section at a time. It was the node that caused the error.

I had to install https://www.iis.net/downloads/microsoft/url-rewrite
on my Windows 7 machine. Then the error went away.

Here is an example what to put in the node of your web.config

	<rewrite>
	<rules>
	<clear />
	<rule name="Redirect to https" stopProcessing="true">
	<match url="(.*)" />
	<conditions>
	<add input="{HTTPS}" pattern="off" ignoreCase="true" />
	</conditions>
	<action type="Redirect" url="https://{HTTP_HOST}{REQUEST_URI}" redirectType="Permanent" appendQueryString="false" />
	</rule>
	</rules>
	</rewrite>

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