The right place to force SSL on entire domain

Question

I'm not all that familiar with htaccess and in attempting to do this myself I'm getting a too many redirects error so I thought I would go to the experts. I'm just looking for the right place within my htaccess file to force SSL on the entire site, while still removing www, removing index.php, etc (the usual fare for an EE install). My htaccess file currently looks like this:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>

# Enable Rewrite Engine
# ------------------------------
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /

# Redirect www Requests
# ------------------------------
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.(.*)$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://%1/$1 [R=301,L]

# Redirect index.php Requests
# ------------------------------
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^GET.*index\.php [NC]
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} !/MySystemFolder/.*
RewriteRule (.*?)index\.php/*(.*) /$1$2 [R=301,L]

# Force SSL
# ------------------------------
# I'm guessing this is the position for the https rewrite rule
# but when I tried it, it resulted in a too many redirects error.

# Standard ExpressionEngine Rewrite
# ------------------------------
RewriteCond $1 !\.(css|js|gif|jpe?g|png) [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php/$1 [L]

</IfModule>

#add Expires
# ------------------------------
FileETag MTime Size
<IfModule mod_expires.c>
  <filesmatch "\.(jpg|png|css|js|jpeg|woff|ttf|svg|eot|gif)$">
       ExpiresActive on
       ExpiresDefault "access plus 1 year"
   </filesmatch>
</IfModule>

I would greatly appreciate being pointed in the right direction.

Answer 1

this worked for me:

Options -Indexes

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
        RewriteEngine On
        RewriteBase /

        # Removes index.php from ExpressionEngine URLs
        RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^GET.*index\.php [NC]
        RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !/YOURSYSTEMFOLDER/.* [NC]
        RewriteRule (.*?)index\.php/*(.*) /$1$2 [R=301,NE,L]

        # Directs all EE web requests through the site index file
        RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
        RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
        RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php?/$1 [L]

        # Force www
        Options +FollowSymlinks
        RewriteEngine on
        RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^YOURWEBSITE.com [NC]
        RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://www.YOURWEBSITE.com/$1 [L,R=301,NC]
</IfModule>