OpenSourcery

Like many Drupal developers, at any particular time I'm running dozens of Apache virtual hosts on my workstation. This allows access to each project under a friendly url. We frequently create sites that employ SSL, which creates a wrinkle: officially, it's not possible to used name-based virtual hosting with SSL.

Simply disabling the SSL features on a development copy isn't the best option, because we need to test this functionality as we're developing.

It turns out that you can use SSL and vhosts together, sort of. Name-based virtual hosts can be configured on port 443 just like any other port. Apache won't stop you, though it will throw a stern warning when it starts up: