无法从IIS7中删除URL重写

Question

I've spent hours trying to solve this so I'm posting as a last resort..

I've tried removing some URL rewrites that were pointing a webpage from HTTP to HTTPS.

Upon deleting the rewrite it is still sending me to HTTPS. I've tried; Manually editing the web.config Restarting website Restarting IIS server Restarting IIS admin service Rebooting server

None of the above seems to stop the rewrite at all..

Is there something I am missing?

Answer 1

I had the same problem with IIS express - removing rewrite section from web.config was unsuccessful. Solution - clean a browser's cache.

Answer 2

Have you checked server level rules? Can be found in IIS Manager, click server node and then Url Rewrite module or directly in the IIS config file located:

C:\Windows\System32\inetsrv\config\applicationHost.config

Answer 3

It seems that there is an output cache that caches the redirect response before it reaches the URL rewrite rules again. It can be turned off:

<system.webServer>
    <caching enabled="false" enableKernelCache="false" />
</system.webServer>

Be aware though that this is output cache for the whole application, so it might affect something else. In any case it can be utilized and then commented out to clean the state of url rewrite rules.