I want to enable ssl on an EC2 instance. I know how to install third party SSL. I have also enabled ssl in security group.
I just want to use a url like this: ec2-xx-xxx-xxx-xx.compute-1.amazonaws.com with https.
I couldn't find the steps anywhere.
It would be great if someone can direct me to some document or something.
Edit:
I have a instance on EC2. On Which I have installed LAMP. I have also enabled http, https and ssh in the security group policy.
When I open the Public DNS url in browser,I can see the web server running perfectly.
But When I add https to URL, nothing happens.
Is there a way I am missing? I really dont want to use any custom domain on this instance because I will terminate it after a month.
Best Answer
For development, demo, internal testing, (which is a common case for me) you can achieve demo grade https in ec2 with tunneling tools. Within few minutes especially for internal testing purposes with [ngrok] you would have https (demo grade traffic goes through tunnel)
Tool 1: https://ngrok.com Steps:
wget https://bin.equinox.io/c/4VmDzA7iaHb/ngrok-stable-linux-amd64.zip
(at the time of writing but you will see this link in ngrok home page once you login)../ngrok authtoken shjfkjsfkjshdfs
(you will see it in their home page once you login)EC2
./ngrok http 80
(or a different port if your simple http server runs on a different server)https
link to your server.Tool 2: cloudflare wrap
Alternatively, I think you can use an alternative to ngrok which is called cloudflare wrap but I haven't tried that.
Tool 3: localtunnel
A third alternative could be https://localtunnel.github.io which as opposed to ngrok can provide you a subdomain for free it's not permanent but you can ask for a specific subdomain and not a random string.
--subdomain request a named subdomain on the localtunnel server (default is random characters)
Tool 4: https://serveo.net/