SSL installed on Apache2 but HTTPS not working

Question

I recently installed an SSL certificate on my Amazon EC2 Ubuntu 12.04(32bit) server running Apache 2.

When I attempt to access my site via https, it does not load. When I perform an nmap scan, i see that port 443 is not open.

I tried to open port 443 in my ip tables to no avail. iptables -L yeilds

Chain INPUT (policy ACCEPT)
target     prot opt source               destination
ACCEPT     tcp  --  anywhere             anywhere             tcp dpt:https

Here's how I installed ssl

I modified /etc/init.d/apache2.conf to include ssl.conf and modified ssl.conf to include the requisite paths of my certificate files, ie

SSLCertificateFile /path/file SSLCertificateKeyFile /path/file SSLCertificateChainFile /path/file

I configured my security group to allow inbound requests from port 443 (TCP source:0.0.0.0/0)

When I perform the following test with php

if (!extension_loaded('openssl')) 
{
  echo "not loaded";
}
else
{
  echo "loaded"   ;
}

I get "loaded".

Any ideas?

Answer 1

In httpd-ssl.conf, do you have Listen 443

If not, try adding that, and restarting apache.