Bind SSL to Custom Port in Apache

You may already know how to bind SSL to port 443 on your apache webserver in Ubuntu 20.04,

But in case you don’t know, here is a clue.

The not so complicated approach is to create a new VirtualHost record that the Apache server will load when restarted.

You could create a new file in the /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/ folder named something like your-domain-name.tld.conf

sudo nano /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/my-domain-name.com.conf

And in that file you would have something similar to

<IfModule mod_ssl.c>
<VirtualHost *:443>
  ServerName my-domain-name.com
  ServerAlias *
  DocumentRoot /var/www/html
  SSLEngine On
  SSLCertificateFile /path-to-certificate/fullchain.pem
  SSLCertificateKeyFile /path-to-certificate-key/privkey.pem
</VirtualHost>
</IfModule>

Of course, your domain name would be different than mine. Also ensure that you already have a valid certificate and key file from the service that you purchased the SSL certificate from. You can also get SSL certificates for free by following the instructions from Certbot.

Also take note that the DocumentRoot parameter points to the website folder where your html files are located. Usually it is the location of the main index.html for your website.

If you then restarted your apache server

sudo service apache2 restart