I have two web applications one in PHP and one in Java (Play framework).
I want to make both these applications available to my clients and I have only one server for test environment.
What would be the best and easy to maintain approach for my problem?
I am already looking at options of virtual hosts on Apache server. But is the best? Are there any third party tools which can help me to divert traffic to PHP and Java apps based on the port in the http request?
Port nos for PHP app is 80 and Java app is 9000.
Regards,
Suraj
assuming both ports are forwarded correctly and Apache is only listening for traffic on port 80 and java is only listening on 9000 then going to YourIp:80 should take you to apache and YourIP:9000 should take you to the java app
For PHP app create common vhost as usally, and for Play app create reverse-proxy vhost (with other domain and/or subdomain for this), take a look at samples in docs
LoadModule proxy_module modules/mod_proxy.so
...
<VirtualHost *:80>
DocumentRoot "/path/to/your/php/app/root/folder/"
ServerName your-php-app.com
ErrorLog "/path/to/apache/logs/folder/your-php-app.com-error_log"
CustomLog "/path/to/apache/logs/folder/your-php-app.com-access_log" common
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost *:80>
ProxyPreserveHost On
ServerName your-play-app.com
ProxyPass /excluded !
ProxyPass / http://127.0.0.1:9000/
ProxyPassReverse / http://127.0.0.1:9000/
</VirtualHost>
Thanks for your comment.
Yeah, I did the same thing. I am simply pointing my domain name to Apache Http server. So its using default port 80 and does not show up in urls.
Also, I am using Apache as front server for all my requests to port 9000. So, I am rerouting my requests for Play application at port 9000 through Apache port 80. It needed a change in url patterns so that play and apache specific urls can be distinguished.
Changed urls and used proxy_http_module + ProxyPassMatch directive to get the rerouting working.
Suraj
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I have two domains domainA.com and domainB.com that both point to the same IP address/server. On that server...
I have an Apache2 web server serving port 80
I have a TomCat9 serving port 8080
I want to redirect all requests (including "/") to the default port 80 of domainB.com to the TomCat9 server on port 8080, whilst leaving all traffic to domainA.com to be handled by the Apache2 web server.
Can anyone recommend a simple recipe for achieving this?
I have looked at https://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-4.1-doc/proxy-howto.html but got somewhat lost.
May have been easier than I had expected.
I just added the following to /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/donainB.conf
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin michael.ellis#myemail
ServerName domainB.com
ProxyPass / http://localhost:8080/
</VirtualHost>
I have no idea if this is the correct thing to do, but it seems to be doing the job.
I have one server with 2 ip addresses.
I have multiples applications in .net (webapi, a console application, etc) and one specific using PHP which is running on apache (w/ xampp).
I configured IIS to run on default port 80 and xampp is using port 8080.
As I said before, I have two ip addresses and two domains (eg: domain1.com and domain2.com).
I need to pinpoint domain1.com.br to the IIS app (which is working) but my php app never get reached since all the requests are directed to port 80 (which iis takes control).
What can I do to solve this?
I know that I can point both ip's to port 80 but how to tell IIS whenever he gets a request from a specific domain/host (in this case, domain2.com.br) he redirects to the port 8080?
You may need to let the apache takes the control,due to apache's redirect features.The main idea is to setup the apache, use apache's redirect features(vhost,if you prefer to call it so) to direct the special requests to your IIS server.
Change your IIS listening to port 8080 (and set the domain to your domain,domain1.com for example).Leave your apache to listen on 80.
Enable the module below in your apache config file(http.conf):
LoadModule proxy_module modules/mod_proxy.so
LoadModule proxy_connect_module modules/mod_proxy_connect.so
LoadModule proxy_http_module modules/mod_proxy_http.so
LoadModule proxy_ftp_module modules/mod_proxy_ftp.so
And Enable:
Include conf/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf
3. The next step is to setup the virtual host. Edit the config fileconf\ extra\httpd-vhosts.conf
<VirtualHost *:80>
DocumentRoot "x:\The\Dir\to\Your\Php\Site"
ServerName domain2.com.br
ErrorLog "logs/domain2-error.log"
CustomLog "logs/domain2-access.log" common
</VirtualHost>
And the setup to your domain2.com.br is Done.Restart your apache server,visit your site by domain name ,and your php site shall be working.
If the steps upon is working as expected,this shall be the last step.
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName your.net.site.domain.com
ProxyPreserveHost On
ProxyPass "/" "http://127.0.0.1:8080/"
ProxyPassReverse "/" "http://127.0.0.1:8080/"
ErrorLog "logs/domain1-error.log"
CustomLog "logs/domain1-access.log" common
</VirtualHost>
And now it should work as you expect it to.
Use
Reverse Proxy method
What is Reverse Proxy Method
A reverse proxy server is a type of proxy server that typically sits
behind the firewall in a private network and directs client requests
to the appropriate backend server. A reverse proxy provides an
additional level of abstraction and control to ensure the smooth flow
of network traffic between clients and servers.
Refer NGINX Documentation to know more about Reverse Proxy.
You can use reverse proxy either on your IIS or Apache(Xampp) Server. But since you have a Windows Server I recommend you to do reverse proxy on IIS server.
Example: Rewrite or Reverse proxy in IIS
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,
Is there an easy way to change from domain.com:8080/myapp to domain.com? Any step by step working examples for Tomcat 7?
Yes, you can use Apache Mod_Proxy for this. You use Apache2 as a front-end to your Tomcat instance.
Here is a configuration example:
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin webmaster#localhost
ServerName site.domain.com
Redirect / /tomcat-context/
ProxyPass /tomcat-context/ http://127.0.0.1:tomcat-port/tomcat-context/
ProxyPassReverse /tomcat-context/ http://site.domain.com/tomcat-context/
ProxyPreserveHost On
</VirtualHost>
You can find more infos here.
It may seem a bit hard to grasp at first if you're not an Apache2 expert (I am not), but once you've configured your first frontend, adding more and more tomcat instances behind it is a breeze.
Or if you're lazy, change the connector port from 8080 to 80 in the conf/server.xml file in your tomcat home directory.
My work runs a couple different internal web apps on an ubuntu server (10.10) running apache. I'm currently developing another web app, and am seriously considering developing on top of a custom-built node.js web server. My reasoning for wanting to do this is:
Speed/Scalability
Security - Pages will be served with a switch...case, instead of just serving the (potentially malicious) user whatever they ask for.
Ease of setup - my intentions are for this to be an open-source project, and node.js is much easier for users to set up, rather than dealing with apache/IIS/etc.
My question is, on a server where I've got apache listening to port 80, how can I pass off a certain subdomains to node.js. I've seen a couple articles about using apache virtual hosts to pass it off, but that seems to defeat the purpose of using node.js. If I have to go through apache, then all three of my reasons for avoiding apache/IIS have voided themselves.
I know I could use a different port (:8080?), but from an end-user standpoint, it's pretty confusing having to put in custom ports. Any alternative ideas?
Thanks
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName subdomain.yourdomain.com
ProxyPreserveHost on
ProxyPass / http://localhost:8080/
</VirtualHost>
Thanks to http://www.chrisshiplet.com/2013/how-to-use-node-js-with-apache-on-port-80/
if socket.io node is running, be sure to enable also few apache mods:
a2enmod proxy
a2enmod proxy_balancer
a2enmod proxy_express
a2enmod proxy_http
in file /etc/apache2/sites-available/chat.example.com.conf
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName chat.example.com
<Location "/">
ProxyPreserveHost On
ProxyPass http://localhost:3000/
ProxyPassReverse http://localhost:3000/
</Location>
</VirtualHost>
then of course service apache2 reload
How about doing things the other way round : bind node to port 80, handle the traffic targeted at the subdomain and use it as a reverse proxy to apache for everything else ?
Let me start from the ground up:
You have a DNS. And a dns server maps one DNS to one IP!
You then have apache running on your computer that listens for connections on port 80 for http:// and on port 443 for https://. http://example/ is actually a request on http://example:80/.
You can't use node.js to listen on the same machine on the same port as apache. That's why using port 8080 is viable.
You can also map the subdomain to a different IP. The only caveat here is that you need to have a public IP Address.
You can't serve port 80 from both Apache and node.js. Having Apache as a reverse proxy wouldn't be much efficient and that's why nginx is popular in this scenario. Other alternative than nginx based reverse proxy can be as Khez suggested mapping your subdomain to different IP address which will node.js program listen to or maybe use node.js itself as a reverse proxy for Apache.
You could configure a virtual host in apache for your new site and add a permanent redirect within it to the localhost and port used by node.js.
This is how I do it on a server with several other virtual hosts and my node.js application running on port 3000:
NameVirtualHost *:80
[Other virtual hosts omitted for brevity]
...
ServerName mynewsite.com
RedirectMatch (.*) http://localhost:3000$1