Charts, reverse proxy and SSL

I have set up an APEX server running XE under Windows 2003. I upgraded it to APEX 3.0.1. I have an application almost completed that I now want to start testing remotely, and that I want to protect with SSL. So, I installed the Windows version of Apache, and got one of my network experts to help me install an SSL certificate. We used a reverse proxy method per non-Oracle documentation we dug up using Google. (I think one of my problems may be that I did not actually configure APEX to use an external web server -- read on.) Everything seems to be working fine except the flash charts, which generate an error message that "XML loading failed." There is a URL in the error message that starts: http://127.0.0.1:8080/apex... Clearly, when APEX generates an internal URL, it is not aware of the fact that the browser is remote and the reverse proxy is only working from the Apache server to the internal APEX server (and not the other direction). This may or may not be complicated by the fact that the URL's being proxied contain "https".
I tried to configure APEX for an external web server per instructions in the APEX 3.1 Installation Guide. HOWEVER, per step 4.4.5, I cannot find "ORACLE_HTTPSERVER_HOME\Apache\modplsql\conf\dads.conf". In fact, there is NO apache directory anywhere (except for the one that I installed indepentdently of APEX). I had this problem prior to installing Apache myself, i.e there is no obvious place where the web server that comes with APEX is installed, and there is no DADS file. I searched the ENTIRE C: drive and there is no DADS file.
You've already guessed that I have not been using APEX very long, and I am guessing that I probably have more than one problem. I have spent hours reading documentation, and have had a lot of success with APEX. This just went further than I know how to diagnose.
Here are some of my questions, some of which I'm sure are related:
- Where is dads.conf?
- Where is the 3.0.1 web server?
- What do I have to do to get APEX to generate the correct https URL's?
- Is it possible to set up a reverse proxy from the APEX internal web server to the external Apache server?
Oh... and P.S.: I installed the upgrade to APEX 3.1 in the hope that it would fix something. I spent a lot of time trying to follow every step precisely. The 3.1 installation acts the same way as 3.0.1 where everything that I have done except charts works fine.
I will be incredibly gateful if someone can help me with this.

Did you ever find a solution to this issue?

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