.htaccess redirect loop when trying to add forced HTTPS rule (Amazon Elastic Beanstalk)

Question

I started receiving this error after trying to incorporate a rule to force HTTPS in the production environment. The BWC_ENV environment variable can have a handful of different values: "prod", "stage", "ben_local", "nam_local", etc.

Here's my .htaccess:

RewriteEngine On

# Force HTTPS
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} !=on
RewriteCond %{ENV:BWC_ENV} ^prod$
RewriteRule ^ https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R=301]

# Parse the subdomain as a variable we can access in our scripts
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST}        !^www
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST}         ^([^\.]+)\.([^\.]+)\.([^\.]+)$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /$1?subdomain=%1

# Ditto for the path; map all requests to /index.php
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !robots.txt
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php?path=$1 [L,QSA] 

# robots.txt - supply the correct one for each environment
RewriteRule ^robots.txt$ /robots.prod.txt [NC] 
RewriteCond %{ENV:BWC_ENV} !prod
RewriteRule ^robots.prod.txt$ /robots.stage.txt [NC] 

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Edit

What's more, if my .htaccess only contains the following, this will cause a redirect loop too. Why could this be?

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} !=on
RewriteRule ^ https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R=301]

Answer 1

It turns out this is an Amazon Elastic Load Balancer thing. You have to use Amazon's X-Forwarded-Proto header to accomplish this:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP:X-Forwarded-Proto} !https
RewriteRule !/status https://%{SERVER_NAME}%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R]

Answer 2

You have L flag missing in few rules. Type changing your code to this:

Options +FollowSymLinks -MultiViews
# Turn mod_rewrite on
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /

# Force HTTPS
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} !=on
RewriteCond %{ENV:BWC_ENV} ^prod$
RewriteRule ^ https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R=301]

# Parse the subdomain as a variable we can access in our scripts
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} !^$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST}        !^www
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST}        ^([^.]+)\.[^.]+\.[^.]+$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /$1?subdomain=%1 [L,QSA]

# Ditto for the path; map all requests to /index.php
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !robots.txt
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php?path=$1 [L,QSA] 

# robots.txt - supply the correct one for each environment
RewriteRule ^robots.txt$ /robots.prod.txt [L,NC] 
RewriteCond %{ENV:BWC_ENV} !prod
RewriteRule ^robots.prod.txt$ /robots.stage.txt [NC,L]