> I have made this work, however there are drawbacks to this solution.

Grrr, I take it back, I can't reproduce it now.  I still get the "name 
check, site name does not match certificate" warning before it follows 
the redirect.

> 1) you need at least 2 certs, one for the virtual hosting server and
> the second one for the client (in our example, server.cert and
> acme.com.cert).  If you used self-signed certs, the user is asked
> TWICE to accept the cert, one for the server.cert and secondly for the 
> acme.com cert.
> 
> 2) when you contact https://acme.com, what you end up with in the
> browser's location is actually "https://acme.com:8443";.  If someone
> bookmarks this and you rearrange your port numbers, they're screwed.
> 
> 
> <VirtualHost 192.168.1.1:443>
>         ServerAdmin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>         ServerName acme.com
>         Redirect / https://acme.com:8443
>         SSLCertificateFile /path/to/original/server.cert 
>         SSLCertificateKeyFile /path/to/original/server.key
> </VirtualHost>
> 
> <VirtualHost 192.168.1.1:443>
>         ServerAdmin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>         ServerName perigee.com
>         Redirect / https://perigee.com:8444
>         SSLCertificateFile /path/to/original/server.cert 
>         SSLCertificateKeyFile /path/to/original/server.key
> </VirtualHost>
> 
> 
> <VirtualHost 192.168.1.1:8443>
>         ServerAdmin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>         ServerName acme.com
>         DocumentRoot /var/www/acme.com
>         SSLCertificateFile /path/to/original/acme.com.cert 
>         SSLCertificateKeyFile /path/to/original/acme.com.key
> </VirtualHost>
> 
> <VirtualHost 192.168.1.1:8444>
>         ServerAdmin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>         ServerName perigee.com
>         DocumentRoot /var/www/perigee.com
>         SSLCertificateFile /path/to/original/perigee.com.cert 
>         SSLCertificateKeyFile /path/to/original/perigee.com.key
> </VirtualHost>

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