Free SSL has been installed on all websites on our Brisbane Windows IIS server – by arrangement between Let’s Encrypt, Plesk and our host.

Provide more security on your website.
Take advantage of the free SSL certificate that’s now available with your website on our Brisbane Windows IIS host. You may need your web designer to help,

  1. To show https on only certain pages where customers enter their details, edit the links to those pages to put https in the URL of those page links.
  2. To force browsers to open the whole website showing https and the padlock icon:
    Insert the following in your web.config file just before the line:
    </configuration>
    Replace example.com with your own full domain name (e.g. thingy.com.au).


    <rewrite>
    <rules>
    <remove name=”Plesk. SEO-safe redirect for http://example.com” />
    <rule name=”Plesk. SEO-safe redirect for http://example.com” patternSyntax=”Wildcard” stopProcessing=”true”>
    <match url=”*” />
    <conditions>
    <add input=”{HTTP_HOST}” pattern=”example.com” />
    <add input=”{HTTPS}” matchType=”Pattern” pattern=”OFF” ignoreCase=”true” negate=”false” />
    </conditions>
    <serverVariables />
    <action type=”Redirect” url=”http://www.example.com/{R:1}” />
    </rule>
    <rule name=”https” patternSyntax=”Wildcard” stopProcessing=”true”>
    <match url=”*” />
    <conditions logicalGrouping=”MatchAny”>
    <add input=”{HTTPS}” pattern=”OFF” />
    </conditions>
    <action type=”Redirect” url=”https://{HTTP_HOST}{REQUEST_URL}” redirectType=”Found” />
    </rule>
    </rules>
    </rewrite>