http to https

[Tim DeBoer <tdeboer@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi everyone,
I've been playing around with SSL and want to set up apache to automagically handle traffic as https, rather than http on the SSL enabled sites.

For example if I type in secure.foo.com, I want apache to read/load it as https://secure.foo.com in my browser. Right now it just loads as http://secure.foo.com. 
If I use https://secure.foo.com it works properly of course.

I have mod_rewrite installed, and it works to redirect http traffic, but I can't get it to work in this case. This is the rewrite rule I'm using:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(secure\.)?.foo.com [NC]
RewriteRule . https://secure.foo.com/ [L]

I'm not sure, but I would imagine it's something in the rewrite rule that's messed up, but I can't seem to figure it out. It might also be something in my SSL config for all I know.

Any suggestions?

Thanks everyone  :)

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Tim DeBoer