I started offering SSL/TLS on my site with lets encrypt beta certificates, now I wanted to move to enforcing SSL/TLS.

For this I will be using mod_rewrite.

First I enabled mod_rewite

sudo a2enmod rewrite

Then edit /etc/apache2/apache2.conf and add

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off
RewriteRule (.*) https=//%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI}

The restart Apache and test

sudo systemctl restart apache2

Now all requests will have the URL rewritten to include https=//