I already attached the code in an earlier message. If you want to know what my application does and what the server I wrote is doing, please read the code. I also explained it in comments in the code, including at the very top of the C++ and JavaScript files.
What I copied over were the HTML, CSS, JavaScript and .exe files, as well as some other files required for the application that Visual Studio created (currency_converter.ipbd, currency_converter.iobj, currency_converter.pdb), when I compiled and linked under the Release build configuration. If I go back to the reverse proxy route, I'd have to take out the environment variables I guess (unless there's a way to hide the Google Maps API Key and the currency API Access Key that I can use with a reverse proxy in Apache, so that I don't have put the keys in there directly--is there something like this?). Either way, I do still need to know how to configure the vhosts configuration file (and the reverse proxy configuration in the httpd.conf file if I do go back to that--which I think I'll have to) so that when I navigate to the virtual host in the browser, I'll see the application I made. I need to know how to do all of this correctly on Apache: the reverse proxy configuration and the virtual host set up, with the mod_proxy, mod_proxy_http, and any other modules I need for this. I could just change the C++ server application into a CGI or FastCGI one, but I'll need to learn how to do that first. While I need to find out how to correctly configure a reverse proxy and virtual host as well anyway, at least I won't have to do anything to my C++ code. ________________________________ From: Eric Covener <cove...@gmail.com> Sent: Sunday, September 9, 2018 6:00:33 AM To: users@httpd.apache.org Subject: Re: [users@httpd] Reverse Proxy for Web Application (or adding it as extension to Apache web server) On Sat, Sep 8, 2018 at 8:13 PM Osman Zakir <osmanzaki...@hotmail.com> wrote: > > I put the files for my app that I wanted to be served behind a reverse proxy > into Apache's document root instead to have them served that way (is this a > good idea? Can Apache start the server as an extension like this?). What files did you copy? You only mentioned before a C++ based HTTP server. I don't think copying anything like that to be served directly by Apache would help. There are much more involved/estoeric solutions in this area, but they wouldn't just be a matter of copying files. These options would be FastCGI or writing an Apache module. Both are much more complicated than a reverse proxy if you already have a backend HTTP server. It's not clear why you want anything in front of your c++ http server. But you are really missing the basics of how multiple servers/processes will be interacting. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@httpd.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@httpd.apache.org
