Redirect urls to HTTPS in Laravel 5

Modern internet equipped with more tools for security and easiness. Today we are learning how to redirect a url to HTTPS in laravel 5.  So we are forcing the users to use https urls  throughout  application. We can use middleware for redirect all non-https urls to https url.
1) Creates a middleware, you can create manually or run the following command in command line
php artisan make:middleware HttpsProtocol

<?php

namespace App\Http\Middleware;

use Closure;

class HttpsProtocol
{
    /**
     * Handle an incoming request.
     *
     * @param  \Illuminate\Http\Request  $request
     * @param  \Closure  $next
     * @return mixed
     */
    public function handle($request, Closure $next)
    {
        if (!$request->secure() && env('APP_ENV') === 'prod') {
            return redirect()->secure($request->getRequestUri());
        }
        return $next($request);
    }
}

2)Then enable your middleware in the Kernel.php, by adding the line below to $middleware.
\App\Http\Middleware\HttpsProtocol::class

protected $middleware = [
        \Illuminate\Foundation\Http\Middleware\CheckForMaintenanceMode::class,
        \Illuminate\Foundation\Http\Middleware\ValidatePostSize::class,
        \App\Http\Middleware\TrimStrings::class,
        \Illuminate\Foundation\Http\Middleware\ConvertEmptyStringsToNull::class,
        \App\Http\Middleware\TrustProxies::class,
        //here
        \App\Http\Middleware\HttpsProtocol::class,
    ];

3)Finally change your application environment in .env to prod if not changed yet.

APP_NAME=Laravel
APP_ENV=prod
APP_KEY=XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX=
APP_DEBUG=false