Thanks Ray,
Further to our conversations where my site would always default to http:// and not as it should https://
I was able to get this working by placing this code
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} 80
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://www.mywebsite.com/$1 [R,L]
in the .htaccess file
Seems to be working fine now. hopefully may assist SEO results
canonical.