NameVirtualHost {YOUR_IP}:443 ServerAdmin webmaster@{YOUR_SERVER-DNS-NAME} DocumentRoot /var/www/ ServerName * CustomLog /var/log/apache2/{YOUR_SERVER-DNS-NAME}-ssl.log combined SSLEngine On SSLCertificateFile /etc/apache2/ssl/apache.pem RewriteEngine on #optional RewriteLog /var/log/apache2/proxy_rewrite.log RewriteLogLevel 1 #this is not an open proxy RewriteRule ^(http|https)://.* - [F] #rewriting the url an send to proxy RewriteRule ^/(.*)$ http://%{HTTP_HOST}/$1 [P] #forgett all other requests RewriteRule ^.*$ - [F]