This knowledgebase article applies to Windows Hosting only, below are the Linux instructions
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After installing an SSL on your website hosting on our Windows servers you'll most likely want to force or redirect all traffic to https
Follow the steps below to add a redirect rule to your web.config that will force all traffic on port 80 to port 443 (SSL / https)
Download a copy of the web.config file which can be found in your domain's wwwroot
Open the file using a text editor such as notepad ++
Add the rewrite rule immediately after the following :
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<configuration>
<system.webServer>
<rewrite>
<rules>
<rule name="ZADNS HTTP to HTTPS redirect" stopProcessing="true">
<match url="(.*)" />
<conditions>
<add input="{HTTPS}" pattern="off" ignoreCase="true" />
</conditions>
<action type="Redirect" redirectType="Found" url="https://{HTTP_HOST}/{R:1}" />
</rule>
</rules>
</rewrite>
Save the web.config and upload it to your website's wwwroot directory, overwriting the existing web.config
Your web.config should look simlar to the image below
