SSL Certificate from 1&1 to an AWS EC2 instance not working - apache

Question

I have a php web app running on a AWS EC2 instance with ubuntu. It's domain name comes however from 1&1 and is pointing to the AWS EC2 public IP.
I have a SSL certificate from 1&1 on this same domain name.
When running the web page on my browser in http everything works fine. But as soon as I run it with https it's there is constant load and the page never renders.
I guess the issue is caused by my apache configuration, but I don't know what needs to be changed to make the https working fine.
Here is my mydomain.com.conf :
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName www.mydomain.com
ServerAlias mydomain.com
DocumentRoot "/var/www/html/mydomain/"
ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error_mydomain.log
CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined
</VirtualHost>
By looking on internet, I found out that a ssl key has to be added into the conf file, but since I'm using an ssl certificate from 1&1 I have no key or whatsoever.
Is there anyone who knows more about it ?
Thanks

Answer 1

Ok, so I know not many people will run into this same issue, but we never know...
It is impossible to do this without the /ssl/cert files indeed.
Unfortunately, the 1 SSL Certificate offered by 1&1 on the ultimate packs are only made for websites hosted on 1&1. I called them, and they don't want to give me the cert files because my webpage is hosted at AWS.
Thus, there is no other option then getting an other SSL certificate. I'll probably use letsencrypt for that.

Answer 2

You must have been provided with a cert and cert bundle from your CA vendor, and I am hoping you have kept the private key intact when creating the CSR for the bundle, your vhost should look something like this:
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName <mywebsite>
ServerAlias www.<mywebsite>
DocumentRoot /var/www/html/<mywebsitedocroot>
DirectoryIndex index.php index.html
<Directory /var/www/html/<mywebsitedocroot>>
#Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
Options -Indexes
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost *:443>
DocumentRoot /var/www/html/<mywebsitedocroot>
DirectoryIndex index.php index.html
ServerName <mywebsite>
ServerAlias www.<mywebsite>
SSLEngine On
#SSLCertificateFile /etc/ssl/certs/<mycert>.crt
#SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/ssl/certs/<mycert>.key
SSLCertificateFile /etc/ssl/certs/<mycert>_com.crt
SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/ssl/certs/<mycert>_com.key
SSLCertificateChainFile /etc/ssl/certs/<mycert>_com.ca-bundle
<Directory /var/www/html/<mywebsitedocroot>>
#Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
Options -Indexes
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
Require all granted
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
What is essential to understand is HTTPS listens on port 443, not 80 (it is for HTTP) and the most important section (considering your situation) is:
SSLCertificateFile /etc/ssl/certs/<mycert>_com.crt
SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/ssl/certs/<mycert>_com.key
SSLCertificateChainFile /etc/ssl/certs/<mycert>_com.ca-bundle
You can ignore all the Options I have set or set it as per your need. I just grabbed the info from my website conf. Hope this helps