force http to https in laravel

APPLICATION LEVEL CONFIGS:
 
  - Edit app/Providers/AppServiceProvider.php
  - Add the following code in the boot method
  - URL::forceScheme('https');
  - It will make sure to server all the content, links, form actions over https instead of http.

SERVER LEVEL CONFIGS:
  
  - Edit vi /etc/apache2/sites-available/000-default.conf  file
  - add the following code in <VirtualHost *:80> tag
  
        RewriteEngine On
        RewriteCond %{HTTP:X-Forwarded-Proto} =http
        RewriteRule .* https://%{HTTP:Host}%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R=permanent]
        
  - add the following code in the <Directory /var/www/html/cdis/public> tag which will be inside <VirtualHost *:80> tag
  
        RewriteEngine On
        RewriteCond %{HTTP:X-Forwarded-Proto} =http
        RewriteRule .* https://%{HTTP:Host}%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R=permanent]
        
        
  - restart the server and we are good to go!
  
  - sudo service apache2 restart