Hi everyone, I am looking for some help configuring Apache Web Server as a reverse proxy.
A little background: I have a Debian 9 (stretch) server at my home, running Nextcloud on Apache2. I have a static IP from my ISP, and a domain I own is pointed to it. I have forwarded ports 80 and 443 on my router to the LAN IP of my Debian server. Everything is configured and working, and I can access my Nextcloud instance at https://mydomain.com
What I would like – and tell me if I'm barking up the wrong tree here – is a secure way of accessing different services on my home network from the internet. According to the material I have found, a reverse proxy is a good way of doing this.
Put simply, I would like to be able to access my Nextcloud server at https://nextcloud.mydomain.com and the ability to add other services (on the same or different machines), such as https://email.mydomain.com or https://bittorrent.mydomain.com
Can someone help me with the configuration required to do this? Also, does it defeat the purpose if the reverse proxy and the services I want to access are on the same machine?
I have checked the documentation at https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/vhosts/examples.html and there is a brief section on using virtual_host and mod_proxy together, but not enough detail for me to create my own configs.
Here is my current Nextcloud configuration:
<IfModule mod_ssl.c>
<VirtualHost _default_:443>
DocumentRoot /var/www/nextcloud
CustomLog /var/log/apache2/nc-access.log combined
ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/nc-error.log
SSLEngine on
#SSLCertificateFile /etc/ssl/certs/ssl-cert-snakeoil.pem
SSLCertificateFile /home/john/ssl/certificate.crt
#SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/ssl/private/ssl-cert-snakeoil.key
SSLCertificateKeyFile /home/john/ssl/private.key
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
#RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.(.*)$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://%1/$1 [R=301,L]
</IfModule>
</VirtualHost>
<Directory /var/www/nextcloud/>
Options +FollowSymlinks
AllowOverride All
<IfModule mod_dav.c>
Dav off
</IfModule>
LimitRequestBody 0
SSLRenegBufferSize 10486000
</Directory>
</IfModule>
Any help is much appreciated.
~John
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