I have a question that has come up somehow in different questions but I still can't find the solution, yet.

My problem is that I'm hosting a site on apache 2.4 on debian with SSL and Internet Explorer 7 on windows xp shows

Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage

I have only ONE virtual host that uses ssl, but DIFFERENT virtual hosts that use http. Here is my config for the site with SSL enabled (etc/sites-avaible/default-ssl is NOT linked)

<Virtualhost xx.yyy.86.193:443>
  ServerName www.my-certified-domain.de
  ServerAlias my-certified-domain.de

  DocumentRoot "/var/local/www/my-certified-domain.de/current/www"
  Alias /files "/var/local/www/my-certified-domain.de/current/files"

  CustomLog /var/log/apache2/access.my-certified-domain.de.log combined

  <Directory "/var/local/www/my-certified-domain.de/current/www">
    AllowOverride All
  </Directory>

  SSLEngine on
  SSLCertificateFile /etc/ssl/certs/www.my-certified-domain.de.crt
  SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/ssl/private/www.my-certified-domain.de.key
  SSLCipherSuite HIGH:MEDIUM:!aNULL:+SHA1:+MD5:+HIGH:+MEDIUM

  SSLCertificateChainFile /etc/apache2/ssl.crt/www.my-certified-domain.de.ca

  BrowserMatch "MSIE [2-8]" nokeepalive downgrade-1.0 force-response-1.0
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost *:80>
  ServerName www.my-certified-domain.de
  ServerAlias my-certified-domain.de

  CustomLog /var/log/apache2/access.my-certified-domain.de.log combined

  Redirect permanent / https://www.my-certified-domain.de/
</VirtualHost>

my ports.conf looks like this:

NameVirtualHost *:80
Listen 80

<IfModule mod_ssl.c>
    # If you add NameVirtualHost *:443 here, you will also have to change
    # the VirtualHost statement in /etc/apache2/sites-available/default-ssl
    # to <VirtualHost *:443>
    # Server Name Indication for SSL named virtual hosts is currently not
    # supported by MSIE on Windows XP.
    Listen 443
</IfModule>

<IfModule mod_gnutls.c>
    Listen 443
</IfModule>

the output from apache2ctl -S is like this:

xx.yyy.86.193:443      www.my-certified-domain.de (/etc/apache2/sites-enabled/020-my-certified-domain.de:1)
wildcard NameVirtualHosts and _default_ servers:
*:80                   is a NameVirtualHost
         default server phpmyadmin.my-certified-domain.de (/etc/apache2/conf.d/phpmyadmin.conf:3)
         port 80 namevhost phpmyadmin.my-certified-domain.de (/etc/apache2/conf.d/phpmyadmin.conf:3)
         port 80 namevhost staging.my-certified-domain.de (/etc/apache2/sites-enabled/010-staging.my-certified-domain.de:1)
         port 80 namevhost testing.my-certified-domain.de (/etc/apache2/sites-enabled/015-testing.my-certified-domain.de:1)
         port 80 namevhost www.my-certified-domain.de (/etc/apache2/sites-enabled/020-my-certified-domain.de:31)

I included the solution for this question: Internet explorer cannot display the page, other browsers can, possibly htaccess / server error

And I understand the answer from this question:

How to setup Apache NameVirtualHost on SSL?

In fakt: I only have one ssl certificate for the domain. And I only want to run ONE virtual host with ssl. So I just want to use the one ip for the ssl virtual host. But still (after rebooting / restarting / testing) internet explorer will still not show the page.

When I intepret the apachectl -S as well, I already have only one SSL host and this should response to the initial SSH handshake, shouldn't it?

What is wrong in this setup?

Thank you so much Philipp