Need help trouble shooting Https webserver error - SSL Handshake failed

I followed this guide: http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20041129143420344

Here is my virtual host definition

<VirtualHost *:443>
    SSLEngine on
    SSLProxyEngine On
    RequestHeader set Front-End-Https "On"
    CacheDisable *
    SSLCipherSuite ALL:!ADH:!EXPORT56:RC4+RSA:+HIGH:+MEDIUM:+LOW:+SSLv2:+EXP:+eNULL
    DocumentRoot "/Users/me/projects/myproject/public"
    ServerName ssl.mydomain.com
    ServerAlias *.ssl.mydomain.com
    SSLCertificateKeyFile "/private/etc/apache2/certs/webserver.nopass.key"
    SSLCertificateFile "/private/etc/apache2/certs/newcert.pem"
    SSLCACertificateFile "/private/etc/apache2/certs/demoCA/cacert.pem"
    SSLCARevocationPath "/private/etc/apache2/certs/demoCA/crl"
    ErrorLog "/Users/me/Desktop/ssl.log"

    ProxyPass / https://localhost:3002/
    ProxyPassReverse / https://localhost:3002
    ProxyPreserveHost on    
</VirtualHost>

And when I try connecting to the sevre viov the web browser, I get this error:

[Thu Feb 02 16:50:40 2012] [error] (502)Unknown error: 502: proxy: pass request body failed to 127.0.0.1:3002 (localhost)
[Thu Feb 02 16:50:40 2012] [error] [client 96.11.81.39] proxy: Error during SSL Handshake with remote server returned by /session/new
[Thu Feb 02 16:50:40 2012] [error] proxy: pass request body failed to 127.0.0.1:3002 (localhost) from 96.11.81.39 ()

how do I debug / fix this?

Solution 1:

To add to vbartoni's answer, it seems that from Apache 2.4 and up, there are different defaults and a new directive.

I am running Apache 2.4.6, and I had to add the following directives to get it working:

SSLProxyEngine on
SSLProxyVerify none 
SSLProxyCheckPeerCN off
SSLProxyCheckPeerName off

Solution 2:

I had a similar problem (the same error logs), except that the proxy was forwarding https traffic to another host.
Since I was lazy and the hosts are in my own isolated network, these directives solved the problem:

SSLProxyVerify none
SSLProxyCheckPeerCN off