Host Angular app on IIS - Redirect to root and force HTTPS

As an alternative solution I ended up forcing https on the main controller in the angular project directly, as follows. (Posted in case is useful for someone else)

import { Component, OnInit } from '@angular/core';
import { Location } from '@angular/common';
import { environment } from '../environments/environment';

@Component({
  selector: 'vp-app-root',
  templateUrl: './app.component.html',
  styleUrls: ['./app.component.scss']
})
export class AppComponent implements OnInit {
  title = 'vp-app';
  location: Location;

  ngOnInit() {
    if (environment.production) {
      if (location.protocol === 'http:') {
        window.location.href = location.href.replace('http', 'https');
      }
    }
  }
}


REDIRECT TO HTTPS & REDIRECT TO ROOT

Someone who is still looking for web.config solution, replace your existing web.config file code with the following code:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
  <configuration>
   <system.webServer>
    <rewrite>
      <rules>

          <!--START REDIRECT TO HTTPS-->
           <rule name="Redirect to https" stopProcessing="true">
                <match url=".*" />
                <conditions>
                    <add input="{HTTPS}" pattern="off" ignoreCase="true" />
                </conditions>
                <action type="Redirect" url="https://{HTTP_HOST}{REQUEST_URI}" redirectType="Permanent" appendQueryString="false" />
            </rule>
            <!--END REDIRECT TO HTTPS-->

            <!--START REDIRECT TO ROOT-->
            <rule name="AngularJS" stopProcessing="true">
              <match url=".*" />
               <conditions logicalGrouping="MatchAll">
                  <add input="{REQUEST_FILENAME}" matchType="IsFile" negate="true" />
                  <add input="{REQUEST_FILENAME}" matchType="IsDirectory" negate="true" />
               </conditions>
               <action type="Rewrite" url="/" />
            </rule>
           <!--END REDIRECT TO ROOT-->

         </rules>
      </rewrite>
    </system.webServer>
 </configuration>

Note: For IIS 6 you may need to install URL Rewrite extension to make it work.

You can find URL Rewrite extension at: https://www.iis.net/downloads/microsoft/url-rewrite