diff --git a/httpd/README.md b/httpd/README.md
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@@ -94,9 +94,31 @@ COPY ./my-httpd.conf /usr/local/apache2/conf/httpd.conf
 
 #### SSL/HTTPS
 
-If you want to run your web traffic over SSL, the simplest setup is to `COPY` or mount (`-v`) your `server.crt` and `server.key` into `/usr/local/apache2/conf/` and then customize the `/usr/local/apache2/conf/httpd.conf` by removing the comment from the line with `#Include conf/extra/httpd-ssl.conf`. This config file will use the certificate files previously added and tell the daemon to also listen on port 443. Be sure to also add something like `-p 443:443` to your `docker run` to forward the https port.
+If you want to run your web traffic over SSL, the simplest setup is to `COPY` or mount (`-v`) your `server.crt` and `server.key` into `/usr/local/apache2/conf/` and then customize the `/usr/local/apache2/conf/httpd.conf` by removing the comment symbol from the following lines:
 
-The previous steps should work well for development, but we recommend customizing your conf files for production, see [httpd.apache.org](https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/ssl/ssl_faq.html) for more information about SSL setup.
+```apacheconf
+...
+#LoadModule socache_shmcb_module modules/mod_socache_shmcb.so
+...
+#LoadModule ssl_module modules/mod_ssl.so
+...
+#Include conf/extra/httpd-ssl.conf
+...
+```
+
+The `conf/extra/httpd-ssl.conf` configuration file will use the certificate files previously added and tell the daemon to also listen on port 443. Be sure to also add something like `-p 443:443` to your `docker run` to forward the https port.
+
+This could be accomplished with a `sed` line similar to the following:
+
+```dockerfile
+RUN sed -i \
+		-e 's/^#\(Include .*httpd-ssl.conf\)/\1/' \
+		-e 's/^#\(LoadModule .*mod_ssl.so\)/\1/' \
+		-e 's/^#\(LoadModule .*mod_socache_shmcb.so\)/\1/' \
+		conf/httpd.conf
+```
+
+The previous steps should work well for development, but we recommend customizing your conf files for production, see [httpd.apache.org](https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/ssl/ssl_faq.html) for more information about SSL setup.
 
 # Image Variants