Mod-rewrite problem (Apache Users)

Hi,

I am using ubunto 8.0.4 and apache 2.2.8 and I'm having some issue with mod rewrite and SSL redirection.

I have two objectives. The first is to redirect http://www.site.co.za and http://site.co.za to the url https://www.site.co.za and the second is to redirect all traffic for https://site.co.za to https://www.site.co.za.

I can get the first part working perfectly using the following:

ServerName www.site.co.za

ServerAlias site.co.za

DocumentRoot /var/www/site.co.za

ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/site.co.za.co.za-error_log

CustomLog /var/log/apache2/site.co.za-access_log common

RewriteEngine on

RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off

RewriteRule (.*) https://www.site.co.za%{REQUEST_URI}

RewriteLog /var/log/apache2/site.co.za-rewrite_log

RewriteLogLevel 3

</VirtualHost>

But for the life of me I cannot get the second part working, I've tried of this:

...

RewriteEngine on

RewriteCond %{HTTPS} on

RewriteRule (.*) https://www.site.co.za%{REQUEST_URI}

RewriteLog /var/log/apache2/site.co.za-rewrite_log

RewriteLogLevel 3

RewriteEngine on

RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} ^443$

RewriteRule (.*) https://www.site.co.za%{REQUEST_URI}

RewriteLog /var/log/apache2/site.co.za-rewrite_log

RewriteLogLevel 3

</VirtualHost>

and this:

...

RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %{HTTPS} on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.%{HTTP_HOST}/$1 [R=301,L]

RewriteLog /var/log/apache2/ssl-site.co.za-rewrite_log

RewriteLogLevel 3

</VirtualHost>

I've even add this to the .htaccess file in /var/www/site.co.za but still no joy:

RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.%{HTTP_HOST}/$1 [R=301,L]

RewriteLog /var/log/apache2/ssl-site.co.za-rewrite_log

For some strange reason mod-rewrite seems to be ignoring the SSL traffic even when I remove all rules except for the SSL https://site.co.za to https://www.site.co.za rewrite rule and when I tryhttps://site.co.za I get nothing in the rewrite log files.

Any ideas?

Thanks