Will do. I just shut my local forum host off to see what the www.mydomain.com would return as an error message when the forum link was clicked. I got no error, and the "waiting for forum.mydoamin.com" was displayed in the status
Are there any traps I can set in the httpd.conf file or within the <VirtualHost> tags? You know how it goes...there's always one more thing. I'll read up on the <VirtualHost> docs. . On Tue, 2018-02-06 at 12:08 -0500, Frank Gingras wrote: > Make sure you match the trailing slashes when proxying too. > > > > > > On Tue, Feb 6, 2018 at 11:34 AM, Bret Stern > <bret_st...@machinemanagement.com> wrote: > > Yann, > This works. Thank you very much. > > Would you consider this a safe arrangement? > > Here's what I did. > > To make it work I did the following. > 1. Added a dns subdomain for www.mydomain.com called > forum.mydomain.com > pointing to ip of www.mydowain.com > > 2. Added a link in my html http://forum.mydomain.com > > 3. Uncommented proxy_module and proxy_http_module > in /usr/local/etc/apache24/ httpd.conf > > 4. Added below to httpd.conf > <VirtualHost *:80> > ProxyPass / httpd://internal_lan_host_ip/phpBB3 > ProxyReverse / httpd://internal_lan_host_ip/phpBB3 > ServerName forum.machinemanagement.com > <VirtualHost> > > 5. restarted httpd service > Bret > > > > > > > > > On Tue, 2018-02-06 at 09:51 +0100, Yann Ylavic wrote: > > > On Tue, Feb 6, 2018 at 8:50 AM, Bret Stern > > <bret_st...@machinemanagement.com> wrote: > > > I have apache24 running on freebsd. > > > > > > Can I configure virtual host to direct a request for > forum.mydomain.com > > > to an internal webserver on my network > > > > > > eg; DocumentRoot "forum.mydomain.com" > > > > This would be for local documents. > > > > > or "xxx.xxx.xx.xxx" > > > > > > I tried using Proxy mod but not sure how to setup. > > > > LoadModule proxy_module modules/mod_proxy.so > > LoadModule proxy_http_module modules/mod_proxy_http.so > > <VirtualHost *:80> > > ServerName forum.mydomain.com > > ProxyPass / http://internal_webserver/ > > ProxyPassReverse / http://internal_webserver/ > > </VirtualHost> > > > > > > Regards, > > Yann. > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@httpd.apache.org > > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@httpd.apache.org > > > > > > > -- > Bret Stern > Machine Management > Industrial and Commercial IT Services > > 707-775-9792 (cell-text-direct) > > > -- Bret Stern Machine Management Industrial and Commercial IT Services 707-775-9792 (cell-text-direct)
