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 to be a mod_ssl.so to load up in httpd.conf.

So, I want to know the best way to get apache to be ssl enabled so I can setup my SSL virtual host (note that I have already setup the cert/signatures). Ideally, I would like to not have to rebuild/reinstall apache.

Answer 1

Try this command:

 yum install mod_ssl  

Answer 2

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  <VirtualHost *: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 </VirtualHost> 

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