Connection Refused HTTPS 443 localhost

Question

I am running Windows Server 2012 R2 with Apache 2.4. I'm having trouble with enabling HTTPS for some reason. I've done this before and previously all that I did was

1.) Enable SSL inside Apache by un-commenting LoadModule ssl_module modules/mod_ssl.so from the httpd.conf.

2.) Add the entry into my virtual hosts file.

3.) Restart Apache and browse to the site over https

For whatever reason, it's not working. When I browse over http all works as expected. However, over https it does not connect. So I performed the following tests.

C:> telnet dev.mydomain.com 80 - connects fine telnet

C:> telnet dev.mydomain.com 443 - Could not open connection to host on port 443. Connection failed.

So thinking it's a Firewall issue, I added a rule to allow port 443. I even tried turning off the Firewall completely. Neither worked. Still get the connection failed error.

Can someone please point me in the right direction here?

Thank you!

Solution

After MUCH assistance from ezra-s I added

Listen 443

to the httpd.conf file and HTTPS started working. YAY!!!