Rerouting all http traffic to https with AWS ELB

Question

So I\'ve looked over the other similar questions and they offer solutions but none of them seem to work for some reason. So, for starters, my ELB is set up so that

Answer 1

To rewrite from http to https use following rules.
Also check if your mod rewrite is enabled and working properly.

RewriteEngine On
# This will enable the Rewrite capabilities

RewriteCond %{HTTPS} !=on
# This checks to make sure the connection is not already HTTPS for "normal" conditions

RewriteCond %{HTTP:X-Forwarded-Proto} !https
# This checks the connection is not already HTTPS for AWS conditions

RewriteRule ^/?(.*) https://%{SERVER_NAME}/$1 [R,L]
# This rule will redirect users from their original location, to the same location but using HTTPS.
# i.e.  http://www.example.com/foo/ to https://www.example.com/foo/
# The leading slash is made optional so that this will work either in httpd.conf
# or .htaccess context

Answer 2

It's just your RewriteRule which is not valid. Please see this post on how it should look.