SSL Redirect for SSRS 2019

Question

I'm working with SSRS 2019. I think that I've determined that SSRS doesn't natively support a way to redirect HTTP to HTTPS. The workaround seems to be to remove port 80 from Report Server Configuration Manager and install IIS to handle port 80 traffic with the URL Rewrite module. Please correct me if there's a better way. I'd prefer not to have IIS installed if there's a cleaner way to accomplish a redirect for SSRS.

I'm having a lot of trouble writing a redirect rule. I'd like to both redirect any incoming HTTP requests to HTTPS (which would be handled SSRS) and redirect any traffic to the default site to /Reports. Essentially, I've been trying to combine these two code samples without much success:

<configuration>
<system.webServer>
<rewrite>
<rules>
<rule name="HTTP to HTTPS redirect" stopProcessing="true">
<match url=".*" />
<conditions>
<add input="{HTTPS}" pattern="off" />
</conditions>
<action type="Redirect" url="http://{HTTP_HOST}{REQUEST_URI}" />
</rule>
</rules>
</rewrite>
</system.webServer>
</configuration>

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<configuration>
<system.webServer>
<rewrite>
<rules>
<rule name="Redirect to /Reports" stopProcessing="true">
<match url="^$" />
<action type="Redirect" url="/Reports" />
</rule>
</rules>
</rewrite>
</system.webServer>
</configuration>

Any and all help is appreciated. Thanx!

Answer 1

Do it the easy way and just change one value in your rsreportserver.config file.

<Add Key="SecureConnectionLevel" Value="3"/>

This will force TLS and automatically redirect HTTP to HTTPS.

Answer 2

Hi @Bob Singer ,

There are some mistakes in the HTTP to HTTPS redirect rule. I do some change and you can use it.

<rule name="http to https" enabled="false">  
                    <match url="(.*)" />  
                    <conditions>  
                        <add input="{HTTPS}" pattern="^Off$" />  
                    </conditions>  
                    <action type="Redirect" url="https://{HTTP_HOST}/{R:1}" />  
                </rule>  

Another rule Redirect to /Reports, if it only redirect traffic to main page to /reports, such as http://abc.com to http://abc.com/reports, I think it is no problem and test it work well.

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Best regards,
Bruce Zhang