rewriting http --> https not working

[Matt Morgan]

On 7/26/05, patrick <gibblertron at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 7/26/05, Nathan Grennan <fedora-list at cygnusx-1.org> wrote:
> > On Tue, 2005-07-26 at 13:26 -0400, Matt Morgan wrote:
> >
> > > RewriteRule ^/webmail/(.*) https://%{SERVER_NAME}/webmail/$1 [R,L]
> > > RewriteRule ^/mailman/(.*) https://%{SERVER_NAME}/mailman/$1 [R,L]
> >
> You just need to get rid of the leading slash in your patterns:
> 
> RewriteRule ^webmail/(.*) https://%{SERVER_NAME}/webmail/$1 [R,L]
> RewriteRule ^mailman/(.*) https://%{SERVER_NAME}/mailman/$1 [R,L]
> 
> Patrick

Didn't help! 

All I have to do is edit the file and restart apache, correct?