apache redirect HTTPS to canonical HTTPS - apache

Question

I want all access to my website to be forced to HTTPS (https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/6073543?hl=en).
I also want to force canonical www URL access (https://www.yes-www.org/why-use-www/)
I am attempting to do so according to Apache recommendations using the Redirect directive https://wiki.apache.org/httpd/RedirectSSL and https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/rewrite/remapping.html#canonicalhost
I have a valid lets-encrypt certificate which has both www and the naked domain.
I have configured *:80 and *:443 VirtualHost redirects. /etc/httpd/conf.d/www.example.com.conf:
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName www.example.com
ServerAlias example.com
Redirect permanent / https://www.example.com
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost *:443>
ServerName example.com
SSLEngine on
SSLCertificateFile /etc/letsencrypt/live/www.example.com/cert.pem
SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/letsencrypt/live/www.example.com/privkey.pem
SSLCACertificateFile /etc/letsencrypt/live/www.example.com/fullchain.pem
Redirect permanent / https://www.example.com
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost *:443>
ServerName www.example.com
SSLEngine on
SSLCertificateFile /etc/letsencrypt/live/www.example.com/cert.pem
SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/letsencrypt/live/www.example.com/privkey.pem
SSLCACertificateFile /etc/letsencrypt/live/www.example.com/fullchain.pem
DocumentRoot "/var/www/html/www.example.com"
</VirtualHost>
<Directory "/var/www/html/www.example.com">
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
All works well if I specify base URL (example.com, www.example.com, https://example.com, etc). However, if I specify a page on the naked HTTPS request the redirect eats the root slash (https://example.com/index.html becomes https://www.example.comindex.html).

Answer 1

I do it with the following for all non-ssl to ssl -
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName example.org
ServerAlias www.example.org
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^/(.*)$ https://www.example.org/$1 [R,L]
</VirtualHost>
Slighly different should do the same for https://example.org only redirecting to www.example.org
<VirtualHost your.ip.add.ress:443>
ServerName example.org
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^/(.*)$ https://www.example.org/$1 [R,L]
*snip*
Normal SSL certificate/key stuff goes here
*snip*
</VirtualHost>

Answer 2

RedirectMatch appears to solve the problem similar to the Rewrite suggested by ivanivan. Changing Redirect line in *:443 VHost section to the following seems to fix the issue:
RedirectMatch permanent ^/?(.*) https://www.example.com/$1
I still don't understand why simple Redirect doesn't work with HTTPS.
As an aside, https://salferrarello.com/chrome-clear-redirect-cache/ was useful disabling Redirect caching in Chrome during testing.