@automica,
https://robindirksen.nl/blog/laravel-redirect-to-https-a-middleware-to-force-https
this is one of the tutorials I've been following.
Also I do have Laravel 8 installation and uses apache2 as the webserver.
We already have set up the https in server and it does works with plain PHP but not in Laravel.
When replacing http with https the server returns 404 "requested url not found".