diff --git a/Vagrantfile b/Vagrantfile
index 24d3cf4..85450b6 100644
--- a/Vagrantfile
+++ b/Vagrantfile
@@ -62,6 +62,10 @@ Vagrant.configure(2) do |config|
       inline: "mv /tmp/pkgs-files/lookaside-upload.conf /etc/httpd/conf.d/dist-git/ && restorecon -R /etc/httpd/conf.d/dist-git/",
       run: "always"
 
+    distgit.vm.provision "shell",
+      inline: "mv /tmp/pkgs-files/ssl.conf /etc/httpd/conf.d/ssl.conf && restorecon -R /etc/httpd/conf.d/ssl.conf",
+      run: "always"
+
     distgit.vm.provision "shell",
       inline: "systemctl enable dist-git.socket && systemctl restart dist-git.socket",
       run: "always"
diff --git a/beaker-tests/pkgs-files/ssl.conf b/beaker-tests/pkgs-files/ssl.conf
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..06b8036
--- /dev/null
+++ b/beaker-tests/pkgs-files/ssl.conf
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+# extracted from /etc/httpd/conf.d/ssl.conf for httpd-2.4.29
+# https://github.com/release-engineering/dist-git/issues/17
+
+Listen 443 https
+SSLPassPhraseDialog exec:/usr/libexec/httpd-ssl-pass-dialog
+SSLSessionCache         shmcb:/run/httpd/sslcache(512000)
+SSLSessionCacheTimeout  300
+SSLRandomSeed startup file:/dev/urandom  256
+SSLRandomSeed connect builtin
+SSLCryptoDevice builtin