https to http htaccess redirect not working when SSL enabled

Question

I'm trying to redirect http to https on all pages via an htaccess in the main root of the website (shared hosting). I can't understand why this isn't working? This is the entire content of the htaccess file. Whilst there seem to be similar questions already asked on Stackoverflow, I can't find any solutions that would seem to be of help.

There is one folder/directory on the website that requires SSL so I can't disable SSL on the whole website. That folder has its own htaccess file.

The second chunk of code is very standard as it's a Joomla website. I can't imagine the issue would be in there?

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} on
RewriteRule (.*) http://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [R=301,L]

##### Joomla! core SEF Section -- BEGIN
RewriteRule .* - [E=HTTP_AUTHORIZATION:%{HTTP:Authorization}]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/index\.php
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} /component/|(/[^.]*|\.(php|html?|feed|pdf|raw|ini|zip|json|file|vcf))$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule .* index.php [L]
##### Joomla! core SEF Section -- END

Answer 1

If you use joomla first disable ssl, than use above code because I have use this code also and its working.

RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{HTTPS} on RewriteRule (.*) http://% {HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [R=301,L]