I can't seem to force https on the free usage tier of elastic beanstalk.
I have tried the following suggestion at How to force https on amazon elastic beanstalk without failing the health check
Using this Apache rewrite rule
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP:X-Forwarded-Proto} !https
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/status$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/version$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/_hostmanager/
RewriteRule . https://%{SERVER_NAME}%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R]
When I try that, http requests do not get redirected to https as I would like. Instead, the http page loads normally. I've also tried to use the X-Forwarded-Port header with the same result.
I've also tried the following rewrite rule
RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} 80
RewriteRule . https://%{SERVER_NAME}%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R]
And this rule causes a redirect loop. So it would seem that the apache rewrite rules don't pick up the Elastic Load Balancer headers X-Forwarded-Port and X-Forwarded-Proto, but also a redirect loop isn't what I am going for either.
Please help. I am new to AWS, Elastic Beanstalk, and not very familiar with Apache rules. I am not too sure where to go from here. Thanks.