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Originally Posted by rtwingfield

I've basically taken the configuration from the v2.0 ssl.conf file and incorporated into the ./extra/httpd-ssl.conf of v2.2.11. I've discovered a few nuances such as the <VirtualHost _default_:443> construct in v2.0 had to be changed to <VirtualHost 192.168.1.73:443> which is the IP address within the LAN, i.e., inside a NetGear FVX538 VPN Router.

From http://devil/doc/apache22/mod/mpm_common.html#listen

The Listen directive instructs Apache to listen to only specific IP addresses or ports; by default it responds to requests on all IP interfaces. Listen is now a required directive. If it is not in the config file, the server will fail to start. This is a change from previous versions of Apache.
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From http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod...amevirtualhost

Note

Note, that the "main server" and any _default_ servers will never be served for a request to a NameVirtualHost IP address (unless for some reason you specify NameVirtualHost but then don't define any VirtualHosts for that address).

And in your config snippet you have more than one VirtualHosts listen on :443 without defining a different IP.
If you look a little deeper you also see the httpd-vhosts.conf is included before httpd-ssl.conf and has two wildcard ssl vhosts.

Write for your ssl enabled vhosts a dedicated file and include them after the generic httpd-ssl.conf and make sure every SSL vhost has a dedicated IP.

<VirtualHost *:443>
    DocumentRoot /www/vhosts/Archaxis.net
    ServerName Archaxis.net
    ServerAlias www.Archaxis.net
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost *:443>
# Added MAR 2010
    DocumentRoot /www/vhosts/AR042SWRCAP.org
    ServerName AR042SWRCAP.org
    ServerAlias www.AR042SWRCAP.org
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost 192.168.1.73:443> # . . .the VPN router address
#   General setup for the virtual host
  ServerName archaxis.net:443
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