I've done some experimentation in order to answer my own question...
Firstly, I've only gotten the virtual named host kludge working with Passenger, not the new Lion scheme, but hey, it's a start...
Firstly, follow the Apple temporary fix, as linked in the question.
Then, the following works for me to support two virtual named hosts, implemented using Passenger and Rails. I derived this by taking the Lion virtual host example, and merging in my Snow Leopard config.
Disclaimer this works, but needs improvement. I've not got SSL working yet.
Add the following in a file named 0000_any_80_.conf
## Example Virtual Host Configuration
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName bongle.example.com
ServerAlias bungle.example.com
ServerAdmin bongle@example.com
RackEnv bongle_production
RailsEnv bongle_production
DocumentRoot "/Users/Nigel/Rails/bungle/public"
CustomLog "/var/log/apache2/access_log" combinedvhost
ErrorLog "/var/log/apache2/error_log"
<IfModule mod_ssl.c>
SSLEngine Off
SSLCipherSuite "ALL:!aNULL:!ADH:!eNULL:!LOW:!EXP:RC4+RSA:+HIGH:+MEDIUM"
SSLProtocol -ALL +SSLv3 +TLSv1
SSLProxyEngine On
SSLProxyProtocol -ALL +SSLv3 +TLSv1
</IfModule>
<Directory "/Users/Nigel/Rails/bungle/public">
Options All +MultiViews -ExecCGI -Indexes
AllowOverride None
<IfModule mod_dav.c>
DAV Off
</IfModule>
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName burble.anothersite.com
ServerAlias www.anothersite.com
ServerAdmin bongle@anothersite.com
RackEnv burble_production
RailsEnv burble_production
DocumentRoot "/Users/Nigel/Rails/burble/public"
CustomLog "/var/log/apache2/access_log" combinedvhost
ErrorLog "/var/log/apache2/error_log"
<IfModule mod_ssl.c>
SSLEngine Off
SSLCipherSuite "ALL:!aNULL:!ADH:!eNULL:!LOW:!EXP:RC4+RSA:+HIGH:+MEDIUM"
SSLProtocol -ALL +SSLv3 +TLSv1
SSLProxyEngine On
SSLProxyProtocol -ALL +SSLv3 +TLSv1
</IfModule>
<Directory "/Users/Nigel/Rails/school/public">
Options All +MultiViews -ExecCGI -Indexes
AllowOverride None
<IfModule mod_dav.c>
DAV Off
</IfModule>
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
Additional contributions to improve this are welcome.
Generate a host key
First, make a home for the new SSL files. I use /etc/apache2/ssl. Open up a terminal window, cd to the new directory and issue the following command to create a host key file.
sudo ssh-keygen -f host.key
Generate a certificate request file
This command create a certificate request file. A certificate request file contains information about your organization that will be used in the SSL certificate.
sudo openssl req -new -key host.key -out request.csr
Create the SSL certificate
Create a self signed SSL certificate using the request file.
sudo openssl x509 -req -days 365 -in request.csr -signkey host.key -out server.crt
Configure Apache
Create a backup of /etc/apache2/httpd.conf.
Append the contents of /etc/apache2/extra/httpd-ssl.conf to /etc/apache2/httpd.conf.
In /etc/apache2/httpd.conf, make sure the loading of SSL is enabled (remove the #)
LoadModule ssl_module libexec/apache2/mod_ssl.so
Also, edit SSL section to use the new certificate.
SSLEngine on
SSLCertificateFile /etc/apache2/ssl/server.crt
SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/apache2/ssl/host.key
Check the config and restart Apache to try the new certificate.
sudo apachectl configtest
sudo apachectl restart
Thanks to the House of Ding and Matt Langtree for providing much of this solution.
Best Answer
Apache is there by default, you just need to turn it on:
sudo apachectl startTo tweak it to do what you want you may need to adjust the .conf files located at/etc/apache2/These behave like any other apache configuration (though there are a few OS X specific modules installed).