Re: Apache as a proxy server


Subject: Re: Apache as a proxy server
From: Graham Leggett (minfrin@sharp.fm)
Date: Wed Dec 19 2001 - 01:59:42 MST


Brian Mayton wrote:

> This is annoying because the port number has to be included after the domain
> name to access the file server. Domain names can't be assigned to specific
> ports. I was wondering, though if I could get
> http://www.mydomain.com/filemaker/ to point to http://www.mydomain.com:500/
> (or whatever the filemaker web port is.)
>
> Could Apache be configured to grab the pages from the filemaker server and
> then send them to the requesting client? If not, is there any way that I
> can do this? I've seen reference to some sort of proxying in the Apache
> documentation but I can't find it offhand.

Yes it can.

Set up Apache as a normal webserver, make sure the forward proxy is
switched OFF (you want a reverse proxy, not a forward proxy), then
configure ProxyPass and ProxyPassReverse directives within a
<VirtualHost> section as per the docs.

Good luck!

Regards,
Graham

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