Http, https and link juice

[MickEdwards]

I'm working on a site that is built on DNN.  For some reason the client has set all pages to convert to HTTPS (although this is not perfect as some don't when landing on them).

All pages indexed in Google are straight HTTP, but when you click on the Google result a temp 302 header response to the corresponding HTTPS page for many. I want it changed to a 301 but unfortunately is an issue for DNN.

Is there another way around this in IIS that won't break DNN as it seems to be a bit flaky?  I want to have the homepage link juice pass through for all links made to non HTTPS homepage.  Removing HTTPS does not seem to be an option for them.

[wissamdandan]

I am assuming that you have installed mod rewrite on the IIS box.

you need to add this to the web.config located in the root

<match url="(.*)"></match>

<add input="{HTTPS}" pattern="off" ignorecase="true"></add>

<action type="Redirect" redirecttype="Found" url="https://{HTTP_HOST}/{R:1}"></action>

and make sure in the iis manager for the "SSL required box" is unchecked

[MickEdwards]

The client does not want to change the HTTPS structure and insists all URLs must be HTTPS.  So I am back to square one.

I want the homepage to be HTTP (when a user is not logged in) but I am hitting a brick wall with the client. So at present we have good links coming in to the HTTP url but the indexed is HTTPS and the internal redirect in DNN is a 302 to HTTPS.