LoadModule ssl_module libexec/libssl.so ... ServerName www.vetmed.uni-muenchen.de DocumentRoot /var/www/htdocs DirectoryIndex index.html ErrorLog /var/log/apache/https.vetmed.uni-muenchen.de.errorlog TransferLog /var/log/apache/https.vetmed.uni-muenchen.de.transferlog ProxyPass /studium/wahlpflicht/kurse http://localhost:8081/kurse ProxyPassReverse /studium/wahlpflicht/kurse http://localhost:8081/kurse SSLEngine on SSLCertificateFile /etc/apache/vetmed.cert SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/apache/vetmed.key SetEnvIf User-Agent ".*MSIE.*" nokeepalive ssl-unclean-shutdown Note: The 'SSLCertificateFile' points to the server's SSLCertificate. This was generated by 'openssl req -new > cert.csr'; 'openssl rsa -in privkey.pem -out cert.key'; 'openssl x509 -in cert.csr -out cert.crt -req -signkey cert.key -days 323'. The 'mod_ssl' comes from http://www.modssl.org/ (or 'libapache-mod-ssl' in Debian).