Setting SSL on Apache 2.0

I have been working on Ajax and JSOD recently to prototype different ways to access a secure web service in a cross domain manner. As a result, I need to setup different SSL secure domains on my local box. I have used name based virtual host with Apache 2.0 before to setup mutiple hosts on my box. But setting SSL sites could be a challenge.

Fortunately I found a execllent guide on the web and was able to follow it through. By the end of the last week, I had three virtual SSL hosts setup on my local desktop. Here are some important configurations for it to work.

Listen 443
LoadModule ssl_module modules/mod_ssl.so

Include conf/ssl.conf

SSLMutex none
SSLRandomSeed startup builtin
SSLSessionCache none

#
# Use name-based virtual hosting.
#
NameVirtualHost *:443

SSLEngine On
SSLCertificateFile conf/ssl/tokentest.crt
SSLCertificateKeyFile conf/ssl/tokentest.key
DocumentRoot C:/tmp/sites/token.test.com
ServerName token.test.com
ErrorLog C:/tmp/sites/token.test.com/error.log
CustomLog C:/tmp/sites/token.test.com/access.log common

SSLEngine On
SSLCertificateFile conf/ssl/tokentest.crt
SSLCertificateKeyFile conf/ssl/tokentest.key
DocumentRoot C:/tmp/sites/www.test.com
ServerName www.test.com
ErrorLog C:/tmp/sites/www.test.com/error.log
CustomLog C:/tmp/sites/www.test.com/access.log common

SSLEngine On
SSLCertificateFile conf/ssl/tokentest.crt
SSLCertificateKeyFile conf/ssl/tokentest.key
DocumentRoot C:/tmp/sites/www.tokentest.com
ServerName www.tokentest.com
ErrorLog C:/tmp/sites/www.tokentest.com/error.log
CustomLog C:/tmp/sites/www.tokentest.com/access.log common

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