Mixing HTTPS and HTTP Virtual Hosts in Apache

[Kenneth Porter]

On Tuesday, June 06, 2006 9:21 AM -0500 Matthew Benjamin 
<msbenjamin12 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 2. The ssl configuration is not done in the httpd.conf file, it is done
> in the ssl.conf file. (This is true at least for my Apache servers I have
> installed. (Apache 2)  I believe this is true for everyone else as well.

This is a packaging artifact, but a useful one. The main httpd.conf file 
includes the /etc/httpd/conf.d/*.conf files. This allows other packages to 
provide their own configuration without needing the main httpd.conf file to 
be edited.

SSL support is provided as an optional subpackage by providing the Apache 
configuration as an include file, ssl.conf.

I use this same mechanism to isolate all my virtual hosts in their own 
.conf files. I also serve several web folders and several Subversion 
version control repositories from my Apache setup, and each gets its own 
.conf file. The ssl.conf file is really just a virtual host configuration 
block separated to its own config file for ease of management.