Force https question

I 've read that SSL handshaking takes place before rewrite rules in htaccess and I though to use something like

Code:

NameVirtualHost se.rv.er.ip:443
<VirtualHost se.rv.er.ip:443>
   ServerName www.mydomain.tld
   Redirect permanent / https://mydomain.tld/
</VirtualHost>

I've seen some people doing something similar Nginx: redirect non-www to www on https in nginx

and I thought if there is a way to do this in apache. Of course I tried the above code but I'm definitely no expert at this. Does anybody know how to do it?

 

Thank you for your answer, I've just tried but it doesn't redirect from https://www. to https://mydomain before it fail in the SSL handshake. I guess it can not be done.

 

I purchased a multidomain certificate and didn't know that choosing mydomain.com doesn't cover www.mydomain.com. They need $25/domain to cover all the www versions. So I wanted to redirect the traffic from www to non www through https but I suppose this is not going to happen because of the the ssl handshake taking place before the redirects.. I'm not sure if a reverse proxy in the front could help.

 

Thank you, good link