OWA http to https redirection

[intel233]

I am trying to figure out how to get my OWA to redirect. I DO NOT want my default website affected. I still want people to hit the main website using HTTP. I ONLY want OWA to be redirected to HTTPS://

I am not trying to shorten the way they do it either. I want it to be

https://mail.companyabc.com/owa

I just want it if someone types

http://mail.companyabc.com/owa

it auto redirectes to

https://mail.companyabc.com/owa

 

[58sniper]

Are you running another website on the same IIS server?! If not, then the traditional methods shown by Microsoft will work fine.

Pat Richard MVP
Plan for performance, and capacity takes care of itself. Plan for capacity, and suffer poor performance.

http://www.exchangeblogs.com/

 

[intel233]

I followed this:

http://briandesmond.com/blog/redirecting-owa-urls-in-exchange-2010/

and when I try to goto

http://mail.mycompany.com

is does not redirect me to

https://mail.mycompany.com/owa

 

[intel233]

Ok for some reason internally the redirection does not work. I took over my friends pc and the redirection works fine.

 

[58sniper]

So, internally, going to

http://servername

does not redirect? What about logging onto the server console and going to

http://localhost

?

What combinations have you tried?

https://localhost

(from the server console)

https://servername

Pat Richard MVP
Plan for performance, and capacity takes care of itself. Plan for capacity, and suffer poor performance.

http://www.exchangeblogs.com/

 

[intel233]

When I log in to OWA now I get an error message:
An unexpected error occurred and your request couldn't be handled.
Somehow the redirection is messing this up.

 

[intel233]

Ok I got it.. In IIS manager I needed to remove it from Public and now it works.

 

[58sniper]

Excellent. Glad you got it working.

Pat Richard MVP
Plan for performance, and capacity takes care of itself. Plan for capacity, and suffer poor performance.

http://www.exchangeblogs.com/