Opening port 443 on nginx elasticbeanstalk nodejs

I'm having great difficulty figuring out how to open up port 443 on my AWS EC2 instance thats running nginx as a webserver and nodejs as my application.

Side note: I have a loadbalancer that has the SSL cert configured. Port 443 is open on the load balancer. Security groups are all correctly defined.

My problem is getting 443 open on my EC2 instance which is running nginx. I need to do this elasticbeanstalk way because thats how my continuous deployment is setup.

I've pretty much scoured the internet for the past 24 hours in search of every tutorial out there that is catered to this question and have been unsuccessful.

I've tried creating extensions in my .ebextensions directory based off of the AWS tutorials and nothing happens. When I SSH into the box I don't see any files added that configure nginx to open port 443.

Can someone please explain to me the steps you would take to setup SSL for an Amazon AMI EC2 instance, using elasticbeanstalk as the deployment service, with a loadbalancer and nodejs as an application.

Any help at all would be greatly appreciated!