I am a little lost on how to achieve the following...
I have a single domain name which is running a CMS # www.mywebsite.com
If a specific URL is given apache calls the other VM (different IPv4) running a shop. www.mywebsite.com/store
I've trawled through apache vhosts but nothing seemingly covers the above scenario if its even possible ...https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/vhosts/examples.html
Any guidance would be very much appreciated.
If I understand your problem correctly, you could do this with mod_proxy.
For example:
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName www.mywebsite.com
ProxyPass /store/ http://store.local/
ProxyPassReverse /store/ http://store.local/
</VirtualHost>
You could use the IP address, server hostname or whatever in the proxy directives - store.local is just an example.
The mod_proxy documentation is extensive.
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I have an apache server with a bought domain.
I want to know if it is possible to redirect some web pages... For example
I have a NextCloud Server that I want to access by www.example.com/nextcloud
And a plex server I want to access by www.example.com/plex
PD: I don't have the possibilities of subdomains like www.plex.example.com because I didn't hire it when I bought the domain
Is this possible? How do I need to configure apache virtualhost? Thanks!
You mention that you want to access by www.example.com/nextcloud and by www.example.com/plex. I will therefore take for granted that you do not want the site address to change in your client's browser. So no redirection here. Redirection would change the address bar value.
Then the option you want is a reverse proxy. It will "hide" the fact that the client is being served pages by another site or application.
Assumptions:
You have system 1 with an Apache server that responds to http://www.example.com
You have system 2 with an application that responds to http://www.domain1.com/nextcloud.
You have system 3 with an a plex application that reponds to http://www.domain2.com/plex
Therefore on system 1, in the configuration file for your Apache (most probably httpd.conf), you will:
load the proxy modules
add these lines in your <VirtualHost>:
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName www.example.com
ServerAlias example.com
[... SOME OTHER CONFIG ...]
ProxyPass "/nextcloud" "http://www.domain1.com/nextcloud"
ProxyPassReverse "/nextcloud" "http://www.domain1.com/nextcloud"
ProxyPass "/plex "http://www.domain2.com/plex"
ProxyPassReverse "/plex" "http://www.domain2.com/plex"
[... SOME OTHER CONFIG ...]
</VirtualHost>
Now domain1.com and domain2.com can be IP addresses, but using dns is so much better for flexibility. Adjust this sample as required.
Complete mod_proxy documentation: https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/mod/mod_proxy.html
I have a corporate private network(VPN) and on one VM a website is hosted which can be accessed internally only. e.g. https://internal.com/welcome.html
Now, I want to allow few pages of the site to be accessible from outside but with their own url.
e.g. they will open http://theirdoamin.com/welcome.html which will be redirected into my private network and internally it will be mapped/proxied to https://internal.com/welcome.html.
This way outside will never know the actual url (i.e https://internal.com/welcome.html.
My question is, can we achieve this using Apache Reverse proxy server sitting in-front of my hosted VM?
Second question, can I also limit the access to welcome.html page only and not others?
My colleague already implemented using Apache Nifi but I still believe it can be simple done using Apache Reverse Proxy setup.
Please advise.
Thanks
1) Yes, Apache reverse-proxy is able to do that.
2) You can limit access as you like.
1) I'd set up two vhosts (for examples), one with the original name and one with the VPN-accessable name.
Listen 80
#If you are running a Apache 2.2 you'll need the following line, for 2.4 you won't
NameVirtualHost *:80
<VirtualHost *:80>
DocumentRoot "srv/www/example1"
ServerName internal.com
<Directory "/srv/www/example1">
Require all granted
</Directory>
# Other directives here, if needed
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName external.com
ProxyPreserveHost On
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^ https://internal.com/welcome.html [P]
ProxyPassReverse / https://internal.com/
</VirtualHost>
You'll need the RewriteRule to target a specific file instead of a whole domain. Otherwise a simple ProxyPass would have been enough.
This requires the modules mod_rewrite, mod_proxy and mod_proxy_http to be activated.
2) is done by the RewriteRule. It only allows access to that specific target-file (welcome.html).
I am trying to manage 2 domains with one server (running proxmox with several CT), I am using reverse proxy but seems to be wrong.. here's my configuration:
Let's say we have the main server running proxmox where I managed IPTables to redirect port 80 to the port 80 of my first container (CT01) and port 8109 to port 80 of my second container (CT02).
While using the port in my browser, everything is working well, and I am able to reach each container.
I bought 2 domain names, one for my private server (CT01) and another one for a business server (CT02). I associated both of the domain to my server address, and while typing one or another of them I am redirected to CT01 (normal, browser is running the address to the default port).
So now I tried to use reverse proxy in order to redirect to the desired server (DomainA -> CT01, DomainB -> CT02), I created 2 files in /var/apache2/sites-available/ :
/var/apache2/sites-available/domainA.com:
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName domainA.com
DocumentRoot /var/www/
</VirtualHost>
/var/apache2/sites-available/domainB.com:
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName domainB.com
ProxyPreserveHost On
ProxyRequests On
ProxyPass / http://x.y.z.h:8109/
ProxyPassReverse / http://x.y.z.h:8109/
<Location />
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Location>
</VirtualHost>
Then I runned a2ensite domainA.com and a2ensite domainB.com. I restarted my apache service.
But nothing have changed: both my domainA and domainB redirect me to the same container (CT01).
Any idea?
What i may suggest is doing a new CT just to host a proxy (nginx for example) that will route the requests to one or the other site depending of the Host: field value of the HTTP request. This may be a little bit overkill if it's just for two sites, but when you want to have more, it can be very useful. Plus the NGinx can be used to cache, etc.
Let me know if you are interested. I know a tutorial that you may follow, but it's in french : http://blog.ganbaranai.fr/2013/08/il-etait-une-fois-proxmox-derriere-une-ip-unique/
Hope it helps.
Regards,
This may be a duplicate question, but i have been thinking about it for long. I know, apache supports hosting many websites on a single server. But i want to know the implementation.
The server will have the single IP address. TCP is always port 80. Then how is it possible to run 10 different websites on a single machine. Also DNS, has one-to-one mapping.
I am thinking, probably some tweaking is done in HTTP protocol, but cant think of exact and best possible solution .
Thanks
You can add many VirtualHost entries in your Apache config as follows:
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName www.domain.tld
ServerAlias domain.tld *.domain.tld
DocumentRoot /www/domain
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName www.otherdomain.tld
DocumentRoot /www/otherdomain
</VirtualHost>
This basically prompts Apache to respond differently, serving different documents based on which domain was requested.
More information can be found in the Apache docs: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/vhosts/name-based.html
I have been working on a drupal test site for a while, which has a bunch of virtual hosts set up like this:
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin email#example.com
DocumentRoot "/path/to/root"
ServerName testsite1.example.com
</VirtualHost>
I have been using a modified host file to view each of these test sites, along the lines of:
12.0.0.1 localhost
20.02.2.22 testsite1.example.com
20.02.2.22 testsite2.example.com
20.02.2.22 testsite3.example.com
This has worked fine, however now I need to send the sites over to some people remotely who are not technical enough to modify their own host files and see it the way I do.
Is there a way I could set up Apache so that the url "http://20.02.2.22/testsite1" would forward to testsite1.example.com internally? I am using Drupal, and the site setup needs to see the "testsite1.example.com" so that it can correctly choose the instance to select. I have been looking through apache rewrite, but I am a bit of a newb at this so any help is much appreciated.
testsite1.example.com will only be resolved on your machine, so you cannot redirect. You can set up proxy with mod_proxy. Hope this works for you:
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin email#example.com
DocumentRoot "/path/to/root"
ServerName testsite1.example.com
ServerAlias 20.02.2.22
<Location /testsite1/>
ProxyPass http://testsite1.example.com/
</Location>
</VirtualHost>
The way I show my local test sites is a combination of Dynamic DNS and port-forwarding.
Internally, my Drupal site is at [my machine ip] or localhost.
I setup a free dynamic dns name to my IP and then on my router, accept incoming requests on port to route to [my machine ip]
That way, they can see yoursite.dyndns.com, but its looking at your local copy.
Why you just don't buy a new domain name and point it to your server IP address...
Or there are free domain solutions like:
http://www.dot.tk/en/index.html?lang=en
or
http://dyn.com/dns/
If you wanna buy new domain, i recommending you this one, cheap and quality service: http://server2.elite7hackers.us/recommend.php?site=godaddy