Amazon-web-services – (98)Address already in use: make_sock: could not bind to address [::]:443

What I am trying to do is direct my website on an Amazon EC2 Instance so that I am able to open on an HTTPS protocol. My site was running before but with a warning that it did not have a valid certificate, using this link example https://my.site.name.edu but now I get a "Webpage is not Available" prompt when I try to visit the site.

Please note that I have:

Installed Drupal for this testing site on a Linux server using Apache

My EC2 Instance attached to an Elastic IP

Used the steps in this guide: Creating, Uploading, and Deleting Server Certificates

Valid CA signed Apache certificates

An openssl-1.0.1f file installed in /home/ec2-user folder

Used this link to create the Virtual Host: http://ananthakrishnanravi.wordpress.com/2012/04/15/configuring-ssl-and-https-for-your-website-amazon-ec2/

Below is when the error occurred, while trying to solve the HTTPS access issue

I tried to change the ssl.conf file in this link to see if it would solve the problem: Setup an SSL certificate on an EC2 instance

I copied a new ssl.conf file, commented the old SSLCertificateKeyFile, SSLCertificateFile and SSLCertificateChainFile. I then pasted the copied, modified file into the directory after I coded the first four lines like this:

<VirtualHost 00.00.00.00:443>
  SSLCertificateKeyFile /home/ec2-user/castestingapache/privatekey.pem
  SSLCertificateFile /home/ec2-user/castestingapache/my_site_name_edu.pem 
  SSLCertificateChainFile /home/ec2-user/castestingapache/my_site_name_edu_interm.crt

But when I restarted Apache:

service httpd restart

I received this error message:

Stopping httpd:                                            [FAILED]
Starting httpd: [Wed May 21 14:44:31 2014] [warn] module ssl_module is already loaded,     skipping
(98)Address already in use: make_sock: could not bind to address [::]:443
                                                       [  OK  ]

My httpd.conf is set up like this:

<VirtualHost 00.00.00.00:443>    #Same as the IP in the ssl.conf#
ServerAdmin ec2-user@ec2-00-00-00-00.compute.amazonaws.com
DocumentRoot /var/www/html
ServerName https://my.site.name.edu
SSLEngine on
SSLProtocol all -SSLv2
SSLCipherSuite ALL:!ADH:!EXPORT:!SSLv2:RC4+RSA:+HIGH:+MEDIUM
# ErrorLog logs/errorlogs
# CustomLog logs/custom
SSLCertificateFile /home/ec2-user/castestingapache/my_site_name_edu.pem 
SSLCertificateKeyFile /home/ec2-user/castestingapache/privatekey.pem
SSLCertificateChainFile /home/ec2-user/castestingapache/my_site_name_edu_interm.crt
# SSLCACertificateFile /etc/httpd/conf/bundle.txt 
SetEnvIf User-Agent “.*MSIE.*” nokeepalive ssl-unclean-shutdown
# CustomLog /usr/local/apache/logs/ssl_request_log \
# “%t %h %{SSL_PROTOCOL}x %{SSL_CIPHER}x \”%r\” %b”
</VirtualHost>

EDIT: I tried reverting back to the old ssl.conf but when I try to restart Apache it gives me the same error. THIS PROBLEM HAS BEEN SOLVED I had to delete one of the ssl.conf even though I had renamed it…

Update I have added this line onto the httpd.conf file:

NameVirtualHost 00.00.00.00:443

I believe the problem is that my certificates are not pointing to this IP address.

Update I have just ran the certificate installation checker test here http://ssltool.com/?action=sslCheckOpenSSL and this is what I got:

Note: IP 12-34-56-78 is my private IP address on my AWS EC2 Instance.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Thanks,