How to correctly redirect all http requests to https

Question

I have a functional URL shortening site. Recently I added SSL to the website and configured the .htaccess for proper redirecting. The issue is that all of the http:// requests, redirect back to the homepage https://websi.te

Currently, I've tried setting up redirecting as follows:

RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R=301]

An example of what's going wrong:

User types http://websi.te/keyword or websi.te/keyword and they are redirected to https://websi.te instead of https://websi.te/keyword

Answer 1

Change your rewrite to this:

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

$1 is first group match ^(.*)$, it's your request.