I've been banging my head against the wall for the last few hours trying to get virtual hosts working with apache v2.0. I've read the (un)help docs, and searched the Ars forum already without ...

Yes, the DocumentRoot can be any directory. I would guess that either the Apache user doesn't have r-x permissions to /home/mike, or there isn't a default index file in /home/mike and directory ...

Setting up an https server in Apache is easy. This tutorial covers how to create and sign your ssl certificate as well as how to configure the web server.