At the end of the httpd.conf i have the rewrite instructions, and the output from curl is as follows :

[root@kalturassl log]# curl -l -v kalturassl.servcast.net
* About to connect() to kalturassl.servcast.net port 80 (#0)
* Trying 31.14.40.118... connected
* Connected to kalturassl.servcast.net (31.14.40.118) port 80 (#0)
> GET / HTTP/1.1
> User-Agent: curl/7.19.7 (x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) libcurl/7.19.7 NSS/3.21 Basic ECC zlib/1.2.3 libidn/1.18 libssh2/1.4.2
> Host: kalturassl.servcast.net
> Accept: /
>

Bad Request

Your browser sent a request that this server could not understand.

Reason: You're speaking plain HTTP to an SSL-enabled server port.

Instead use the HTTPS scheme to access this URL, please.

Hint: https://kalturassl.servcast.net/

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Apache/2.2.15 (CentOS) Server at kalturassl.servcast.net Port 443

* Connection #0 to host kalturassl.servcast.net left intact
* Closing connection #0