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EV SSL on Ubuntu 14.04 Digital Ocean Droplet (running sentora)


Here's a short explanation of the situation:

I have an Ubuntu 14.04 VPS from DigitalOcean and I'm trying to install an EV SSL from Comodo for my domain. I've installed Sentora which uses Apache - 2.4.3 which a bit older than 2.4.8 (there's a small difference to what we enter into the VirtualHost configuration file using the tutorial I've used)

The tutorial I've followed:

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-an-ssl-certificate-from-a-commercial-certificate-authority

The problem: When I go to the https:// page, my site doesn't load. It loads http:// tho (In the image attached below you can see the virtualhost conf file and the ports listening), Apache still listens on port 80 instead of 443, I've trying opening the port manually but that still doesnt work as you can see.

Open ports and virtualhost config file


Solution

  • Editing the Apache 000-default.conf as per digital ocean's tutorial won't do anything when using Sentora control panel unless you overwrite the Virtual Host Setting in Sentora.

    Go to Sentora -> Admin -> Module Admin -> Apache

    Scroll to bottom to Override a Virtual Host Setting -> Select your Domain / Sub-Domain

    Then Save vhost. In a few minutes your SSL will get enabled.