IIS 6.0 redirection http->https as well as path redirection

Question

What is trying to be achieved:

1. Redirect any http traffic to https traffic
2. If just the domain or root is entered, a redirection occurs to a particular path/url

Example:

• User entered -> redirected to
• http://sub.domain.com/ -> https://sub.domain.com/mdesign/0/procs/index.html
• https://sub.domain.com/ -> https://sub.domain.com/mdesign/0/procs/index.html
• http://sub.domain.com/mdesign/0/procs/index.html -> https://sub.domain.com/mdesign/0/procs/index.html

What works:

• User entered -> redirected to
• http://sub.domain.com/ -> https://sub.domain.com/mdesign/0/procs/index.html
• http://sub.domain.com/mdesign/0/procs/index.html -> https://sub.domain.com/mdesign/0/procs/index.html
• And any https valid path entered directly also correctly works

What doesn't work:

• https://sub.domain.com/ -> https://sub.domain.com/mdesign/0/procs/index.html

No redirect occurs (no 302 is returned), instead a 404 with, "The resource '/' was not found (insufficent components in path).", which is the webservice application (mdesign) stating nothing at '/' because what we want is in /mdesign/0/procs/

Config

• IIS 6.0 Used for the redirection on top of
• mDesign which is an application serving the https traffic but uses basic windows httpapi so web configuration options within the application are limited (ie no redirection from http->https)

Home Directory Tab for sub.domain.com properties iis 6.0:

• Content should come from:A redirection to a URL
• Redirect to:https://sub.domain.com/mdesign/0/procs/index.html
• The client will be sent to:The exact URL entered above