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arnoldbird
arnoldbird

Reputation: 954

How do I know if I am using AWS Certificate Manager correctly?

What is my indication that I am using AWS Certificate Manager correctly and that any remaining problems getting my site to load at https are due to a mistake I am making in my Apache configuration?

In AWS Certificate Manager, I see "Success! Your certificate was issued successfully." Does that mean there are no further steps for me to complete in the AWS console, and I need only get my Apache configuration correct to finish?

Currently, when I try to visit a URL at my site with the http protocol, it loads fine, but when I visit at https, the browser tries to load the page but it never loads.

I have followed the instructions for creating an HTTPS listener, but still do not know if I am done with all necessary steps in AWS console. How would I know?

Edit: To clarify, I am using an Elastic Load Balancer (ELB), since the documentation indicated I need to use ELB with AWS Certificate Manager (ACM). However, I do not know how to determine if I have configured everything correctly in AWS console that I need to in order to access the site at HTTPS.

Edit 2: This might come close to answering my question, possibly, but I don't know how to do this: "You can use curl, telnet etc from your local machine to verify 443 port status on ELB" -- @vivekyad4v.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 118

Answers (1)

vivekyad4v
vivekyad4v

Reputation: 14853

ACM(AWS Certificate Manager) supports the AWS resources like ELB, Cloudfront, API Gateway etc. You can add SSL certificates to these resources via AWS console.

Currently, it doesn't support EC2. You cannot use ACM with EC2 instances, you will need a Load Balancer in front of it. Once you have a load balancer, SSL termination happens on the load balancer & not on the EC2 instance.

Once it is setup, you can change your apache server config to redirect all HTTP requests to HTTPS.

Add certificate to ELB - "https://docs.aws.amazon.com/elasticloadbalancing/latest/classic/elb-update-ssl-cert.html"

Update apache config - "https://aws.amazon.com/premiumsupport/knowledge-center/redirect-http-https-elb/"

No EC2 support - "https://aws.amazon.com/certificate-manager/faqs/"

Upvotes: 1

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