Ssl – Amazon ELB HTTPS Not working

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I'm trying to get HTTPS working with AWS ELB.

I've been trying for about an hour, but no matter what i try, i just get connection timed out when connecting via HTTPS. HTTP works fine, but not HTTPS.

Can anyone provide some assistance?

Best Answer

Don't forget to allow port 443 in the security group. That's what was causing it to timeout for me.

If you're using Elastic Beanstalk (EBS), you should tweak SSL settings directly in EBS config and it'll update the ELB and security groups as required. If you update it directly in EC2/ELB interface, even though you can get SSL to work, it will not be reflected in the EBS interface.

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