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Marlon Ou
Marlon Ou

Reputation: 501

AWS request ACM HTTPS certificate for load balancer

I am trying to setup HTTPS for my EC2 instance created from Elastic Beanstalk using a certificate from AWS's ACM. According to this article https://colintoh.com/blog/configure-ssl-for-aws-elastic-beanstalk, I need to go to EC2 panel/load balancer and add a new listener rule.

My problem is that for the HTTPS load balancer protocol, when I try to add SSL Certificate, and click "Choose a certificate from ACM (recommended)", there's no ACM certificate available for me.

I know that I will have to request for a new Certificate for this load balancer address, but WHICH VERIFICATION METHOD SHOULD I USE?

As far as I know, there are 2 ways to verify your domain ownership(Email or DNS). I guess email is not an option here because you cannot send an email to a "elb.amazonaws.com" address. But I'm not sure how to verify certificate request by DNS.

And also, I tried to past the load balancer address xxx.xxx.elb.amazonaws.com into ACM to request a certificate for this address, but it says "invalid domain name"

And also, if I were to add custom domain name for my load balancer (for example, create a alias of api.example.com for the load balancer), how can I set up https for that custom domain of api.example.com?

Thanks a lot!

Upvotes: 3

Views: 1106

Answers (1)

Marlon Ou
Marlon Ou

Reputation: 501

Problem solved. Need to request certificate in the same region as load balancer. And then point the custom domain(the one used to request for certificate) to load balancer using route 53

Upvotes: 3

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