On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 12:37 AM, Nishantha Pradeep <nishantha@xxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi all > I am running an apache server on my computer and I am also running chat > server on the same computer. The chat server's http-polling is at port 5280 > . what I want to do is, I have a web chat client and that client should > access the http-polling at chat server through port 80 because I think is it > not a better idea to provide permission to access port 5280 directly. I have > add following to my httpd.conf file but after restarting apache and when I > go to access the 5280, it says access denied. So please somebody just give > me some help to solve this problem. > > name of my chat server-->nishantha-LSF > the webclient is at -->/var/www/xmpp/code > my document root /var/www > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > <VirtualHost *> > ServerName nishantha-LSF > DocumentRoot /var/www/ > <Directory /var/www/xmpp/code> > Options +Indexes +MultiViews > </Directory> > AddDefaultCharset UTF-8 > RewriteEngine on > RewriteRule http-poll/ http://127.0.0.1:5280/http-poll/ [P] > </VirtualHost> Instead of the RewriteRule (which doesn't seem at all correct), use ProxyPass /http-poll/ http://127.0.0.1:5280/http-poll/ ProxyPassReverse /http-poll/ http://127.0.0.1:5280/http-poll/ See: http://www.apachetutor.org/admin/reverseproxies --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx