SSL received a record that exceeded the maximum permissible length. (Error code: ssl_error_rx_record_too_long)

I've just experienced this issue. For me it appeared when some erroneous code was trying to redirect to HTTPS on port 80.

e.g.

https://example.com:80/some/page

by removing the port 80 from the url, the redirect works.

HTTPS by default runs over port 443.

I used

a2ensite default-ssl

and it worked like a charm.

If you want to force e.g. phpmyadmin to use SSL/https you will run into this problem if this link is missing.

I had that same error. I forgot to create a link from sites-enabled/000-default-ssl to the sites-available/default-ssl file.

> ln -s /etc/apache2/sites-available/default-ssl /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/000-default-ssl