There are two articles that explain how to add SSL: How To Create a SSL Certificate on Apache for Ubuntu 12.04 https://www.digitalocean.com/community/articles/how-to-create-a-ssl-certificate-on-apache-for-ubuntu-12-04 How To Set Up Apache with a Free Signed SSL Certificate on a VPS https://www.digitalocean.com/community/articles/how-to-set-up-apache-with-a-free-signed-ssl-certificate-on-a-vps DigitalOcean suggested that I follow the first article, which I did. When editing /etc/apache2/sites-available/default-ssl, I entered something different for "ServerName" than what I entered for "Common Name" during the key generation. I think this is why I got the following error message when I ran "service apache2 reload": "Could not reliably determine the server's fully qualified domain name, using 127.0.0.1 for ServerName" When I made the names consistent and followed some of the suggestions at http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9541460/httpd-could-not-reliably-determine-the-servers-fully-qualified-domain-name-us (which was suggested by Kamal Nasser on https://www.digitalocean.com/community/articles/how-to-create-a-ssl-certificate-on-apache-for-ubuntu-12-04), the error message no longer appeared. However, when I go to my domain on the browser, I still do not see HTTPS. Does anyone have any suggestions on how to get this to work? After trying many of the different suggestions, here is what I have. Here is my terminal session from key generation: root@mydomain:~# openssl req -x509 -nodes -days 3650 -newkey rsa:2048 -keyout /etc/apache2/ssl/apache.key -out /etc/apache2/ssl/apache.crt Generating a 2048 bit RSA private key ........................................................................... ............................................................+++ .............+++ writing new private key to '/etc/apache2/ssl/apache.key' ----- You are about to be asked to enter information that will be incorporated into your certificate request. What you are about to enter is what is called a Distinguished Name or a DN. There are quite a few fields but you can leave some blank For some fields there will be a default value, If you enter '.', the field will be left blank. ----- Country Name (2 letter code) [AU]:. State or Province Name (full name) [Some-State]:. Locality Name (eg, city) []:. Organization Name (eg, company) [Internet Widgits Pty Ltd]:mydomain Organizational Unit Name (eg, section) []:. Common Name (e.g. server FQDN or YOUR name) []:mydomain.com Email Address []:. Here is what I have in /etc/apache2/sites-available/default-ssl : ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost ServerName mydomain.com:443 ... # SSL Engine Switch: # Enable/Disable SSL for this virtual host. SSLEngine on ... SSLCertificateFile /etc/apache2/ssl/apache.crt SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/apache2/ssl/apache.key Here is what I have in /etc/apache2/httpd.conf ServerName myhost.mydomain.com Here is what I have in /etc/apache2/apache2.conf ServerName localhost Here is what I have in /etc/hosts 127.0.0.1 localhost myhost.mydomain.com # The following lines are desirable for IPv6 capable hosts ::1 ip6-localhost ip6-loopback myhost.mydomain.com fe00::0 ip6-localnet ff00::0 ip6-mcastprefix ff02::1 ip6-allnodes ff02::2 ip6-allrouters Here is what I have in /etc/sysconfig/network HOSTNAME = myhost.mydomain.com Then I did the following: root@mydomain:~# a2dissite default-ssl Site default-ssl disabled. To activate the new configuration, you need to run: service apache2 reload root@mydomain:~# a2ensite default-ssl Enabling site default-ssl. To activate the new configuration, you need to run: service apache2 reload root@mydomain:~# service apache2 reload * Reloading web server config apache2 ...done. root@mydomain:~# /etc/init.d/apache2 restart * Restarting web server apache2 ... waiting ...done. root@mydomain:~# When I go to mydomain.com on the browser, I still do not get HTTPS. Can anyone help?