404 error on admin panel page, SSL not working

#1
After install of the GCP litespeed/django instance, the SSL certificate was ignored. So based on another post on this form, (https://www.litespeedtech.com/support/forum/threads/ssl-not-working.1753/) I sent to the SSL section for the virtual host and selected the TLS protocol. The site then performed the TLS negotiation. All good. However, the admin panel did not. I went back to the panel and added a listener to the port 7080 marked secure and pointing at the same certificate files, while following (https://openlitespeed.org/kb/setting-up-name-based-virtual-hosting-on-openlitespeed/). I had selected a http to https rewrite rule on GCP, so I unchecked the http protocol. Upon the graceful restart the panel as become '404'. .. apparently the listener is not working? Was this the right approach for getting the https:<site>:7080 to work? How can the panel be contacted? Are there not configuration files on the server for this?
 
#2
ack, spun another machine .. set the listener for the port 7080 with SSL. When setting the certificate paths it proposed defaults, which I accepted. First time I logged in the admin panel after a reboot it gave me an error about a bad path. Upon refresh the panel doesn't show, but the regular page does. So again, is there a way to configure this without relying on a panel disappearing to say the configuration was wrong? How should it be configured? I can't keep blowing away machine instances because the system says it can't find a certificate ...
 
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