I am running under Debian Etch, with apache2 apache2 -S gives : VirtualHost configuration: 80.xx.xx1.x96:* is a NameVirtualHost default server www.xxxxx.fr (/etc/apache2/sites-enabled/xxx:1) port * namevhost www.xxxxx.fr (/etc/apache2/sites-enabled/xxx:1) [.....] wildcard NameVirtualHosts and _default_ servers: *:443 is a NameVirtualHost default server my.domain.eu (/etc/apache2/sites-enabled/myvhostssl:3) port 443 namevhost my.domain.eu (/etc/apache2/sites-enabled/myvhostssl:3) Syntax OK Here is myvhostssl file NameVirtualHost *:443 SSLEngine on SSLCertificateFile /etc/apache2/ssl/mycert.pem ServerName my.domain.eu DocumentRoot /home/my.domain.eu/www Options Indexes ExecCGI SymLinksIfOwnerMatch AllowOverride All Order allow,deny allow from all CustomLog /home/my.domain.eu/logs/web.log combined