Lighttpd

I'm trying to host a small personal site on my home server (Linux 3.16.1-1-ARCH i686 GNU/Linux) using Lighttpd (1.4.35 (ssl)). I have an SSL certificate from a certificate authority that is correctly installed and working, and covers the following domains: myname.com and www.myname.com

Naturally, I would like to redirect all incoming HTTP traffic to use the secured HTTPS version of the site (https://myname.com and https://www.myname.com). However, after adding the redirect instructions (HowToRedirectHttpToHttps) to my lighttpd.conf file, attempting to access the site using simply myname.com or www.myname.com fails because the browser tries to request the page in HTTP and the redirect to HTTPS does not kick in for some reason. Currently, the only way I can access my site is by going to the exact HTTPS address (https://myname.com or https://www.myname.com).

I have also tried using a specific URL to test redirecting the opening page of the site (right now it's just a "Hello world!" deal), but this was also unsuccessful. I have loaded mod_redirect in my server.modules line, and the only other thing I can think of that might be fouling things up is that I'm using a non-standard port (8080), but this should be properly accounted for through the server.port = 8080.

Here is my lighttpd.conf file with the HTTP to HTTPS redirect at the very bottom. Running lighttpd -t -f /path/to/lighttpd.conf shows syntax OK, and the lighttpd.service systemd file is loaded and running with no errors according to "systemctl status lighttpd".

# This is a minimal example config
# See /usr/share/doc/lighttpd
# and http://redmine.lighttpd.net/projects/lighttpd/wiki/Docs:ConfigurationOptions

# Base Server Configuration
server.port             = "8080" 
server.bind             = "localhost" 
server.username         = "http" 
server.groupname        = "http" 
server.document-root    = "/home/myname/www/myname.com/html" 
server.errorlog         = "/var/log/lighttpd/error.log" 
server.modules          = (
                            "mod_redirect",
                            "mod_alias",
                            "mod_setenv" 
                          )

# Enable access of phpMyAdmin at myname.com/phpmyadmin
alias.url               = ( "/phpmyadmin" => "/home/myname/www/myname.com/html/phpmyadmin/" )

dir-listing.activate    = "enable" 

# Log SSL debug messages
debug.log-ssl-noise     = "enable" 

index-file.names        = ( "index.html" )

mimetype.assign         = (
                                ".html" => "text/html",
                                ".txt" => "text/plain",
                                ".css" => "text/css",
                                ".js" => "application/x-javascript",
                                ".jpg" => "image/jpeg",
                                ".jpeg" => "image/jpeg",
                                ".gif" => "image/gif",
                                ".png" => "image/png",
                                "" => "application/octet-stream" 
                        )

# Included modules with configuration files in /etc/lighttpd/conf.d
include "/etc/lighttpd/conf.d/cgi.conf" 
include "/etc/lighttpd/conf.d/fastcgi.conf" 

# SSL Settings
$SERVER["socket"] == ":443" {
    ssl.engine                  = "enable" 
    ssl.pemfile                 = "/etc/lighttpd/ssl/myname_com.pem" 
    ssl.ca-file                 = "/etc/lighttpd/ssl/myname_com.ca-bundle" 
    server.name                 = "myname.com" 
    server.document-root        = "/home/myname/www/myname.com/html" 
    ssl.use-sslv2               = "disable" 
    setenv.add-environment      = ( "HTTPS" => "on" )
}

# Redirect all HTTP requests to HTTPS
$HTTP["scheme"] == "http" {
    # capture vhost name with regex conditional -> %0 in redirect pattern
    # must be the most inner block to the redirect rule
    $HTTP["host"] =~ ".*" {
        url.redirect = (".*" => "https://%0$0")
    }
}

Any help would be appreciated. Thank you!