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their seems to be alot of documentation on apaches proxy module. Yet i was unable to find anything that worked to get a ssl to ssl proxy running.

you can also use this information for a basic proxypass, just ignore anything ssl related

most of the documentation left out one item : SSLProxyEngine on

You need to enable this option on the ssl virtual host in order to proxy content from your https url to another https url

you’ll also need at least the following, feel free to correct me if a module is a requirement.

mod_proxy.so
mod_proxy_http.so
mod_ssl.so

also you might want to check out : mod_proxy_html

here’s an example apache 2.2.4 vhost config that works for me.

DocumentRoot path/to/files
ServerAdmin admin@inhouse.sid
ErrorLog path/to/log
TransferLog path/to/log

ProxyPass otherserver.sid/path
ProxyPassReverse otherserver.sid/path

SSLProxyEngine on
SSLEngine on
SSLCipherSuite ALL:!ADH:!EXPORT56:RC4+RSA:+HIGH:+MEDIUM:+LOW:+SSLv2:+EXP:+eNULL
SSLCertificateFile path/to/server.crt
SSLCertificateKeyFile path/to/server.key

SSLOptions +StdEnvVars

BrowserMatch “.*MSIE.*” \
nokeepalive ssl-unclean-shutdown \
downgrade-1.0 force-response-1.0

CustomLog path/to/log \
“%t %h %{SSL_PROTOCOL}x %{SSL_CIPHER}x \”%r\” %b”

I should also mention two other options :
ProxyPassReverseCookieDomain
ProxyPassReverseCookiePath

You can find out more about them here :
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mod_proxy.html

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