For a new project of mine we needed to operate Rails with HTTPS. Our setup is the same as I described in an earlier article about Mongrel and Apache 2.2 mod_proxy_balancer, so we have Apache 2.2 in front of a cluster of Mongrels. After the initial plain HTTP setup was working fine we went on to configure HTTPS. The obvious way is to configure an Apache SSL virtual host, that proxies all requests t