Apache SSL config breaks HTTP - apache

Question

I have installed an SSL certificate today, and it works perfectly, pages sought through https:// work fine.
I have put a redirect in my website.conf to redirect port 80 to https, but it is not working.
Also if I go to http://www.example.org (the root), it gets stuck in a redirect loop.
going to http://www.example.org/test.htm goes to the same url minus the last /. eg http://www.example.orgtest.htm/ (slash moves to end)
This is really busting my balls, i really hope you guys have some clues.
here is my .conf file
NameVirtualHost *:80
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName example.org
Redirect permanent / https://www.example.org
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost _default_:443>
# Admin email, Server Name (domain name), and any aliases
ServerAdmin richard#example.org
ServerName example.org
ServerAlias www.example.org
# Index file and Document Root (where the public files are located)
DirectoryIndex index.html index.org
DocumentRoot /var/www/example.org/html
# SSL settings
SSLEngine on
SSLCertificateFile /etc/ssl/certs/www_example_org.crt
SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/ssl/digicert/example.key
SSLCACertificateFile /etc/ssl/certs/DigiCertCA.crt
# Log file locations
LogLevel warn
ErrorLog /var/www/example.org/log/error.log
CustomLog /var/www/example.org/log/access.log combined
</VirtualHost>

Answer 1

Your config looks fine for me. Maybe, you should append a / like this: Redirect permanent / https://www.example.org/
Instead of using Redirect permanent, you could also use mod_rewrite:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://%{HTTP_HOST}/$1 [R=301,L]
For this to work, you must have installed the mod_rewrite module.
If you would like for force https, another approach is so set the HSTS-Header in your Apache config. Then, a browser knows that your website is available with https and will automatically redirect all traffic to your https-address. You can set this header with the following command:
Header always set Strict-Transport-Security "max-age=63072000; includeSubdomains; preload"
In general, I would recommend reviewing your SSL-config with SSLLabs. If your config is fine, you should get an A+-Rating. I hope this helps.

Answer 2

well i worked it out after much tears, i was missing
ServerAlias www.example.org
for port 80, Thanks to Ben for the HSTS header though, i will def use that. cheers