I’m having hard time trying to setup an SSL certificate (it’s a Comodo PositiveSSL purshased from NameCheap) on my EC2 micro instance (I’m using Amazon Linux AMI 2012.3, which is based on CentOS if I’m not mistaken).

Here’s what I did:

1. I installed mod_ssl & OpenSSL
2. I enabled port 443 on my EC2’s instance security group
3. I CHMODed the *.key & *.crt files to 777 as Comodo suggested
4. I’m certain the IP address & files path are correct (put a bunch of
   0s in the example but it is correct in my ssl.conf)
5. I added this VirtualHost entry to ssl.conf

Then I restarted apache…but I stil cannot access https://www.mydomain.com/ !!!

I checked with ssltool.com, it says

I even went & copied the VistualHost to httpd.conf instead of ssl.conf & restarted apache, all in vain.

I’ve been banging my head against the wall for days now. I’m pretty sure I’m missing a tiny something to make this work, I just don’t know what exactly.

I’d be infinitely grateful if someone can suggest something to make this work!

Sometimes this section

prevents your real SSL certificate from being used. If this is the case either comment VirtualHost default or move the SSLCertificate* attributes to it, ie.

Make sure you restart apache after that.