Virtual host configuration not working

Question

I'm trying to move for the first time a website to a dedicated server running on debian. I created a file called mywebsite.com.conf in /etc/apache2/sites-available

Here's the file :

<IfModule mod_ssl.c>
<VirtualHost *:443>
    ServerAdmin [email protected]
    ServerName mywebsite.com
    ServerAlias www.mywebsite.com
    DocumentRoot /var/www/html/mywebsite.com/public_html
    ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
    CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined

    <Directory /var/www/html/mywebsite.com/public_html>
        Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
        AllowOverride All
        Require all granted
    </Directory>
    </VirtualHost>

At first I also added a *:80 entry, but it didn't please certbot for some reason so I deleted it. I then asked certbot to establish a certificate using this command :

sudo certbot --apache -d mywebsite.com -d www.mywebsite.com

Everything went fine, I asked an automatic redirection and certbot created two more files in the sites-available directory.

But when I try to access my website, it shows the index.html I created at /var/www/html instead of the full path to my website. Also the connection isn't secured.

I tried many things with my friend chatgpt, the best I managed to do was a secured connection that pointed to /var/www/html through https://mywebsite.com and a non secured connection that pointed to /var/www/html/mywebsite.com/public_html for some reason, through www.mywebsite.com

I'm running out of solutions here. It seems that my conf files are not doing their jobs.

If someone can enlight me with a possible outcome.

Thanks a lot.