I'm trying to create a production topology and got stuck in the final step of creating an https connection to my site when rerouting from my domain to AWS ELB. 

relevant info:  

 \* An ELB [\*.elb.amazonaws.com] that forwards both 80 and 443 requests to the web server  

 \* I've bought example.com from GoDaddy.  

 \* On Godaddy added forwarding from example.com to https://\*.elb.amazonaws.com  

 \* Created a certificate for \*.example.com on AWS and attached to the ELB  

 \* Limited access to the webserver so all goes through the ELB  

 \* Created (but currently disabled) http->https reroute on the web server 

What's working:  

 \* http://\*.elb.amazonaws.com launches the site correctly  

 \* https://\*.elb.amazonaws.com launches the site correctly  

\* <http://example.com> launches the site correctly 

not working:  

 \* <https://example.com> fails to load (error: too long to respond) 

Any help would be much appreciated!