Hi everyone, I am looking for some help configuring Apache Web Server as a reverse proxy.
A little background: I have a Debian 9 (stretch) server at my home, running Nextcloud on Apache2. I have a static IP from my ISP, and a domain I own is pointed to it. I have forwarded ports 80 and 443 on my router to the LAN IP of my Debian server. Everything is configured and working, and I can access my Nextcloud instance at https://mydomain.com What I would like – and tell me if I'm barking up the wrong tree here – is a secure way of accessing different services on my home network from the internet. According to the material I have found, a reverse proxy is a good way of doing this. Put simply, I would like to be able to access my Nextcloud server at https://nextcloud.mydomain.com and the ability to add other services (on the same or different machines), such as https://email.mydomain.com <http://email.mydomain.com/> or https://bittorrent.mydomain.com Can someone help me with the configuration required to do this? Also, does it defeat the purpose if the reverse proxy and the services I want to access are on the same machine? I have checked the documentation at https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/vhosts/examples.html and there is a brief section on using virtual_host and mod_proxy together, but not enough detail for me to create my own configs. Here is my current Nextcloud configuration: <IfModule mod_ssl.c> <VirtualHost _default_:443> DocumentRoot /var/www/nextcloud CustomLog /var/log/apache2/nc-access.log combined ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/nc-error.log SSLEngine on #SSLCertificateFile /etc/ssl/certs/ssl-cert-snakeoil.pem SSLCertificateFile /home/john/ssl/certificate.crt #SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/ssl/private/ssl-cert-snakeoil.key SSLCertificateKeyFile /home/john/ssl/private.key <IfModule mod_rewrite.c> RewriteEngine On #RewriteBase / RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.(.*)$ [NC] RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://%1/$1 [R=301,L] </IfModule> </VirtualHost> <Directory /var/www/nextcloud/> Options +FollowSymlinks AllowOverride All <IfModule mod_dav.c> Dav off </IfModule> LimitRequestBody 0 SSLRenegBufferSize 10486000 </Directory> </IfModule> Any help is much appreciated. ~John
