In a nutshell, you need to: 1) Define a front-facing vhost. You can use DNS and name-based vhosts to reach it 2) Decide what URI path you want to proxy in that vhost 3) If you proxy / (i.e. every request), then you don't need a DocumentRoot in that vhost. Otherwise, you need one 4) You don't need to use DNS to specify the target of your backend server. ProxyPass / http://IP_HERE:PORT/ is perfectly fine. 5) I actually recommend that you do not use DNS to reach the proxied server, initially. Keep things simple first.
On Fri, Sep 21, 2018 at 6:30 PM Osman Zakir <osmanzaki...@hotmail.com> wrote: > Let me just say again, first, that I have a subdomain name I want to use > for my app. > > Okay. Anyway, when I tried to get to my app just now after starting the > Apache httpd as a service, I got an error page in Edge saying that it can't > reach the page. I'd like to show you my httpd configuration file again to > make sure if I have the reverse proxy configuration done correctly. > > I want to know the IP address so I can use it in my hosts file, since you > said I can add an entry to the hosts file mapping that IP address to a > given name domain name (or subdomain name in my case). Though I'm not sure > if doing it like that would make the app publicly available from anywhere. > > What happens if I set up an IP-based virtual host instead? And how easy > or hard would it be to map a domain or subdomain name to that IP address? > > Another question: the current file path I have for my virtual host > DocumentRoot setting is the one my app's files are in. Should I set it to > the htdocs folder instead (if so, how do I tell it that it what files it > has to serve behind a reverse proxy?)? > > ------------------------------ > *From:* Frank Gingras <thu...@apache.org> > *Sent:* Saturday, September 22, 2018 3:02 AM > *To:* users@httpd.apache.org > *Subject:* Re: [users@httpd] IP address used by Apache reverse proxy? > > The IP httpd will use to proxy to your backend isn't typically relevant, > unless you want to apply filtering or tracking of some sort. > > Can you start over and tell us what problem you're trying to solve, again? > > On Fri, Sep 21, 2018 at 5:53 PM Osman Zakir <osmanzaki...@hotmail.com> > wrote: > > I've already read about networking and DNS to some extent. I'll read > about them some more, though. > > But I still think I should know how to find the IP address used by the > Apache reverse proxy server. Just in case. > ------------------------------ > *From:* Frank Gingras <thu...@apache.org> > *Sent:* Saturday, September 22, 2018 2:47 AM > *To:* users@httpd.apache.org > *Subject:* Re: [users@httpd] IP address used by Apache reverse proxy? > > Osman, > > Starting another thread to ask the same question is a bit ill-advised. I > would still recommend that you get up to speed on networking and DNS > basics, first. > > Next, you should read the following docs: > > http://wiki.apache.org/httpd/ExampleVhosts > http://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/vhosts/examples.html > http://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/mod/mpm_common.html#listen > http://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/vhosts/name-based.html > > > > On Fri, Sep 21, 2018 at 10:41 AM Osman Zakir <osmanzaki...@hotmail.com> > wrote: > > How do I find the IP address? > > Would it be possible to use that IP address with a subdomain name on a > virtual host configuration? I want to use the free subdomain I got from > http://www.subdomain.net. > Subdomain.net - the largest free subdomain network > <http://www.subdomain.net/> > Subdomain.net offers you a free subdomain for your website. > www.subdomain.net > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@httpd.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@httpd.apache.org
