Help needed for IIS Reserve Proxy with Confluence

[JD]

Hello all,

Firstly thanks for taking your time to read and assist me in my issues.

I purchased and installed Confluence on the same server hosting my website via IIS. I've read the IIS Proxy guide for Confluence which can be found in my link below. However, things are still not working properly and I have a few questions about the setup.

I'm attempting a www.domain.com/confluence format for my setup.

Below are the steps I took and my questions:

Part A

1. Stopped Confluence

2, Added context path "/msl" as the extension I wanted to use in "path="
Question: is <> required in the /msl section? Ive tried it both ways and it makes no difference.

<Context path="/msl" docBase="${catalina.home}/atlassian-<atlassianapp>" reloadable="false" useHttpOnly="true">

3. Skipped step 3 as it was for fisheye and crucible only it appears.

3.2 Added scheme, proxyname and proxyport attributes inside the connector directive.
Question: From my understanding subdomain is not required in the proxyname if context path is being used correct? Also if I wanted to force HTTPS can I do that here by making proxyport 443 instead of 80 and moving scheme to https? If I'm self hosted but using an SSL cert on my existing site. Do I even need to change the below to 443 if everything is already redirected to 443 via Wordpress on my site?
My Connect is as follows:

<Connector port="8090" connectionTimeout="20000" redirectPort="8443"
maxThreads="48" minSpareThreads="10"
enableLookups="false" acceptCount="10" debug="0" URIEncoding="UTF-8"
protocol="org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11NioProtocol"
proxyName="mydomain.net"
proxyPort="80"
scheme="http"/>

Part B

1. Installed request Routing and URL rewrite in ISS

2. Enabled Proxying on ARR.

3. Added Application pool to IIS

4. Added rewrite rule to IIS site

Question: When adding pattern (.*) to my site. It denies access to my root site. Once remove the site comes back online. Should this pattern be matching the link I want externally for Confluence? i.e https://mydomain.net/msl ?

Expression used is "http://<JIRA_url:Port>/{R:1}" should this expression be the link I want Confluence to show up on? or just my root domain? if im using SSL should I force this to https? so should the expression state http://mydomain.net/{R:1} or http://mydomain.net/msl/{R:1}.

I believe this section is where the root of my issues reside.

5. Enabled Tune Request Filtering and enabled Allow Double Escaping

6. Disable Output Caching

7. Enabled long URLs via registry key edits.

Rebooted IIS. Restarted Confluence services. Now I am unable to access my website unless I disable the url rewrite rule.

Any assistance is greatly appreciated!

Links:
https://confluence.atlassian.com/kb/proxying-atlassian-server-applications-with-microsoft-internet-information-services-iis-833931378.html

https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/configuring-the-server-base-url-148592.html

https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/IIS-reverse-proxy-with-Confluence/qaq-p/908186