HTTP to HTTPS://wwww iRule

With an irule, you can do that pretty easily. Just tolower the HOST and if it's not redirect. Something like this. It won't test for https (I assume you're vip only accepts 443 (and you can create an 80 vip that automatically redirects everything to https using the built-in

_sys_https_redirect

when HTTP_REQUEST {
    switch [string tolower [HTTP::host]] {
        "www.url.com" { 
             Do nothing
        }
        default {
            HTTP::redirect "https://www.url.com[HTTP::uri]"
        }
    }
}

Thanks Michael, I appreciate the response!

You can use iApps for creating & maintaining the port 443 IIS virtual server and redirection from port 80.

Use the f5.microsoft_iis iApp template. It automatically creates the port 80 redirect VS with proper redirect iRule. Then allow updates and you can add Michael's iRule to the 443 VS.

Additionally you will get proper health checks and profiles etc. It is much, much faster and probably much less error prone than doing manually..and also tested and supported by F5. Pretty safe, I use iApps when possible. Sure they create more objects, but they are kept in app specific container (folder).

THi, thanks for the reply, and the alternative approach, I will take a look at iApp's as well!