Question

Changing port from 80 to 443 redirects site to index (SSL related)

Hi there, i am trying to install my SSL certificate and the problem seems to be that

As soon as the virtualhost port in /etc/apache2/sites-available/default-ssl.conf or 000-default.conf is changed from 80 to 443 (needed for SSL) my website gets directed to a index folder of the html

I am running Ubuntu 14.04 w/wordpress & apache

Any help whatsoever to solve this is appreciated

Here is what my 000-default.conf looks like

<VirtualHost *:443> ServerName prollagen.com SSLEngine on SSLCertificateFile /etc/ssl/key (redacted) SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/ssl/key (redacted) SSLCertificateChainFile /etc/ssl/key (redacted) DocumentRoot /var/www/html

    <Directory /var/www/html/>
        Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
        AllowOverride All
        Require all granted
    </Directory>
    
    ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
    CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined

</VirtualHost>

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Didier Hernandez • February 12, 2021

Instead To do a manually setup, i use Proxy Manager https://nginxproxymanager.com its a great tool.

joseShark • January 20, 2021

hi blakeingram405 or this will help for any of you.

For eg: If you set a virtual host with 443 port and your site not working then you can add the same virtual host config and remove servername, serveralias and add in 000-default.conf file with <VirtualHost *:80>

For eg copy the same configuration and remove servername, serveralias, ssldetails and add in 000-default.conf .

<VirtualHost *:443> DocumentRoot “/var/www/html” ServerName prollagen.com ServerAlias *.prollagen.com SSLEngine On SSLCertificateFile /etc/ssl/key SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/ssl/key SSLCertificateChainFile /etc/ssl/key

<Directory /var/www/html/> Options Indexes FollowSymLinks AllowOverride All Require all granted </Directory>

ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined </VirtualHost>

The 000-default.conf should be as follows

<VirtualHost *:80> DocumentRoot “/var/www/html”

<Directory /var/www/html/> Options Indexes FollowSymLinks AllowOverride All Require all granted </Directory>

ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined </VirtualHost>

blakeingram405 • July 9, 2016

So cloudflare was the problem! As with “Options -Indexes”, when placing - in front of indexes apache throws out an error stating “if an option has - or +, all other options must have the same”

What would another “option” be within 000-default?