Enabling SSL on apache instance on EC2

Question

I have an EC2 instance that is using Amazon\'s custom linux install with built in apache. This install also has openssl installed. That being said, there does not appear t

Answer 1

A summary of what needs to be done to enable SSL on apache server on EC2:

1. Get SSL certificate (which you already did)
2. Install mod_ssl as Jose Vega said
3. Add the following lines to your httpd.conf 3.

NameVirtualHost *:443


    ServerName www.example.com
#    other configurations
SSLEngine on
SSLCertificateFile /etc/httpd/conf/ssl.crt/mydomain.crt
SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/httpd/conf/ssl.key/mydomain.key

Finally, don't forget to open port 443 on your EC2 instance