Apache mod rewrite http to https with out affecting existing rule

Question

I already have a rewrite rule in .htaccess. My old rule replaces all html extensions with php. My .htaccess:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^(.*).html$ index.php?set=$1

Now we have a SSL so now I want to redirct all url http to https with out affecting my old rule. I tried:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^(.*).html$ index.php?set=$1RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off
RewriteRule ^ https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [R=301,L]
RewriteRule ^(.*).html$ index.php?set=$1

With this, the https redirect is working but my old rule failed.

Answer 1

Instead of using rewrite for everything, why don't you use redirect to redirect all http connections to https?

Redirect / https://your.server.com/

Only add this redirect to the http virtual host (I'm assuming you're using virtual hosts to implement the https site).