Re: Virtual/Proxy setup to internal webserver

[Bret Stern <bret_stern@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Yann,
This works. Thank you very much.

Would you consider this a safe arrangement?

Here's what I did.

To make it work I did the following.
1. Added a dns subdomain for www.mydomain.com  called forum.mydomain.com
pointing to ip of www.mydowain.com

2. Added a link in my html http://forum.mydomain.com

3. Uncommented proxy_module and proxy_http_module in  /usr/local/etc/apache24/ httpd.conf

4. Added below to httpd.conf
<VirtualHost *:80>
ProxyPass / httpd://internal_lan_host_ip/phpBB3
ProxyReverse / httpd://internal_lan_host_ip/phpBB3
ServerName forum.machinemanagement.com
<VirtualHost>

5. restarted httpd service
Bret






On Tue, 2018-02-06 at 09:51 +0100, Yann Ylavic wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 6, 2018 at 8:50 AM, Bret Stern
> <bret_stern@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > I have apache24 running on freebsd.
> >
> > Can I configure virtual host to direct a request for forum.mydomain.com
> > to an internal webserver on my network
> >
> > eg; DocumentRoot "forum.mydomain.com"
>
> This would be for local documents.
>
> > or "xxx.xxx.xx.xxx"
> >
> > I tried using Proxy mod but not sure how to setup.
>
> LoadModule proxy_module modules/mod_proxy.so
> LoadModule proxy_http_module modules/mod_proxy_http.so
> <VirtualHost *:80>
>     ServerName forum.mydomain.com
>     ProxyPass / http://internal_webserver/
>     ProxyPassReverse / http://internal_webserver/
> </VirtualHost>
>
>
> Regards,
> Yann.
>
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