How to stop wordpress redirect loop for HTTPS

HTTPS is working and HTTP is working, but when I try to add the redirect of HTTP to HTTPS in .htaccess file, it gets caught in a redirect loop.

Here is apache:

<VirtualHost *:80> DocumentRoot /var/www/html/mysite ServerName mysite.com ServerAlias www.mysite.com </VirtualHost> <VirtualHost *:443> DocumentRoot /var/www/html/mysite ServerName mysite.com ServerAlias www.mysite.com SSLEngine On SSLCertificateFile /var/SSLs/somecert.crt SSLCertificateKeyFile /var/SSLs/somekey.key SSLCACertificateFile /var/SSLs/trust.crt </VirtualHost> 

Here is .htaccess file:

# BEGIN WordPress <IfModule mod_rewrite.c> RewriteEngine On RewriteBase / # RewriteCond %{ENV:HTTPS} !=on # RewriteRule ^.*$ https://%{SERVER_NAME}%{REQUEST_URI} [R,L] RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteRule . /index.php [L] </IfModule> # END WordPress 

When I uncomment the RewriteCond, then it gets caught in a loop. In Wordpress I've set the site and home url to https.

I also added the following to the wp-config.php which solved https not working previously:

$_SERVER['HTTPS'] = 'on'; 

Appreciate any help. Note that I replaced the actual domain with mysite