Apache shows default page instead of https when using http - apache

Question

I'm trying to redirect all my foo.mydomain.com requests to https://foo.mydomain.com.
My VirtualHost contains this:
<VirtualHost *:443>
ServerName foo.mydomain.com
# Indexes + root dir
DirectoryIndex index.html
DocumentRoot /home/web/foo.mydomain.com/htdocs
SSLEngine on
SSLCertificateFile /etc/apache2/ssl/server.crt
SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/apache2/ssl/server.key
SSLVerifyClient none
<IfModule mime.c>
AddType application/x-x509-ca-cert .crt
AddType application/x-pkcs7-crl .crl
</IfModule>
# Logfiles
ErrorLog /home/web/foo.mydomain.com/logs/error.log
CustomLog /home/web/foo.mydomain.com/logs/access.log combined
</VirtualHost>
So now I'm trying to redirect all the http-request to https with mod_rewrite in this .htaccess file:
Options FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off
RewriteRule (.*) https://foo.mydomain.com
Does anyone knows what I'm doing wrong? Thank you in advance!

Answer 1

Try the following in virtual host config for the non https site.
I.e. my settings to do this are:
<VirtualHost *:80>
RewriteCond %{SEVER_PORT} !^443$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [R,L]
.....
</VirtualHost>
This should redirect all incoming http request to https. Then in the config for port 443 you can do whatever you need....
Note: should work in htaccess as well.
Hope that helps. Not sure what you meant by 'default page' but in title and too low rep to leave comments...
Let me know...
Cheers
Robin