Error 500 on phpMyAdmin via https from “self-signed certificate”?

Question

I have used Cpanel to generate and isntall self-signed certificate for https and now when i installed phpmyadmin once i go trough https it thorows error 500 why

Answer 1

One thing you could test (although first I would follow LazyOne's advice and check the error logs) is that you have a vhost set up for listening to SSL traffic, it could be that your server is listening on the right port but once traffic comes in it isn't being handled.

An example (borrowed from here, slightly changed by me) would be.

<VirtualHost *:443>
    DocumentRoot /path/to/site
    ServerName www.yourdomain.com
    SSLEngine on
    SSLCertificateFile /path/to/your_domain_name.crt
    SSLCertificateKeyFile /path/to/your_private.key
    SSLCertificateChainFile /path/to/DigiCertCA.crt
</VirtualHost>

cPanel should handle this but I am not sure if it always does it correctly.