Apache Reverse Proxy not working

Question

I have a blog hosted on a remote server than our front end. I want to point our http://domain.com/blog into http://blog.domain.com which is where our current blog resides (the virtual host leads to a different machine).

So: http://www.domain.com/blog/my-post
Should discretely point to: http://blog.domain.com/my-post

I've tried several ways to do this, but to no avail:

<Location "/blog">
    # Blog proxy
    ProxyPreserveHost On
    ProxyPass /blog http://blog.domain.com # with/without /blog
    ProxyPassReverse /blog http://blog.domain.com # with/without /blog
</Location>

Also outside <Location>:

# Blog proxy
ProxyPreserveHost On
ProxyPass /blog http://blog.domain.com
ProxyPassReverse /blog http://blog.domain.com

Also tried with/without trailing slashes.

Can't get it to work.

I made sure the .htaccess in the http://domain.com/ root is ignoring any rewriterules pointing to $/?blog by using RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/?blog, but still nothing. I just get a 404. The directory shouldn't exist, should it?

Any ideas? Thanks!

Try this guide apachetutor.org/admin/reverseproxies

Chloe
– Chloe

2015-09-24 01:06:03 +00:00
Commented Sep 24, 2015 at 1:06 — Chloe
– Chloe, Commented Sep 24, 2015 at 1:06

Marvin Klar · Accepted Answer · 2018-07-06 14:54:35Z

1

To create a redirect like this you need to configure a apache2 vhost proxy to listen on blog.example.com and to pass the requests to http://example.com/blog

You do this like this:

<VirtualHost *:80> ServerName blog.example.com ProxyPreserveHost On ProxyPass / http://example.com/blog ProxyPassReverse / http://example.com/blog </VirtualHost>

Note: you need to enable the proxy module for apache2 (sudo a2enmod proxy). You need to restart apache2 after enabling the module (sudo service apache2 restart).

answered Jul 6, 2018 at 14:54

Marvin Klar

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