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Posted to users@httpd.apache.org by Matt Easton <ma...@gmail.com> on 2010/06/10 15:56:53 UTC
[users@httpd] How to serve pages from a hidden secondary server
Hello there,
I've just joined this group as I'm trying more complicated things now than I've done before in Apache! Please let me know if I'm not doing anything right. Thanks for your time.
I have two computers on a home network, let's call them server1 and server2. They are both running an Apache server on port 80.
server1 hosts my main external web pages, so my router routes http://home.domain.com to http://server1 (both on port 80)
server2 hosts some private pages, testing, sharing resources etc for my home network.
All is fine, except I now have some pages from server2 that I want to make available outside of my home network. These are in a folder on the main site, i.e. http://server2/folder1
Ideally, I want this to be done in such a way that it is hidden from the user that they are in fact accessing a different server.
Ideally I want them to go to http://home.domain.com/folder2 and actually be seeing http://server2/folder1
I have tried doing this with mod_rewrite and failed. Is it possible to reference a different server with mod_rewrite, or can this only be used for files on the same machine?
At the moment I have managed to serve the pages, by telling my router to forward port 8081 to server2:80. Hence, if I go to http://home.domain.com:8081/folder1 then I get the pages that I want. I have set up a Redirect directive on server1 so that http://home.domain.com/folder2 redirects to http://home.domain.com:8081/folder1, so I can get to the pages using the correct URI, but it doesn't stay in the address bar - it is redirected to the other port.
It is further complicated because the data I want to serve includes streaming media, and this doesn't seem to cope with the 8081 port.
I've been interested in the "mingle" emails today using proxies, but I can't get this to work either.
Both machines are running Ubuntu.
server1: Ubuntu Karmic Koala 9.10 | Linux 2.6.31-22-generic | Apache/2.2.12 (Ubuntu)
server2: Ubuntu Lucid Lynx 10.04 LTS | Linux 2.6.32-22-generic | Apache/2.2.14 (Ubuntu)
Many thanks, and please let me know if I've missed out any vital information!
Cheers,
matt
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Re: [users@httpd] How to serve pages from a hidden secondary server
Posted by Matt Easton <ma...@gmail.com>.
On 10 Jun 2010, at 15:08, Tom Evans wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 2:56 PM, Matt Easton <ma...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hello there,
>>
>> I've just joined this group as I'm trying more complicated things now than I've done before in Apache! Please let me know if I'm not doing anything right. Thanks for your time.
>>
>> I have two computers on a home network, let's call them server1 and server2. They are both running an Apache server on port 80.
>>
>> server1 hosts my main external web pages, so my router routes http://home.domain.com to http://server1 (both on port 80)
>> server2 hosts some private pages, testing, sharing resources etc for my home network.
>>
>> All is fine, except I now have some pages from server2 that I want to make available outside of my home network. These are in a folder on the main site, i.e. http://server2/folder1
>>
>> Ideally, I want this to be done in such a way that it is hidden from the user that they are in fact accessing a different server.
>> Ideally I want them to go to http://home.domain.com/folder2 and actually be seeing http://server2/folder1
>>
>> I have tried doing this with mod_rewrite and failed. Is it possible to reference a different server with mod_rewrite, or can this only be used for files on the same machine?
>>
>> At the moment I have managed to serve the pages, by telling my router to forward port 8081 to server2:80. Hence, if I go to http://home.domain.com:8081/folder1 then I get the pages that I want. I have set up a Redirect directive on server1 so that http://home.domain.com/folder2 redirects to http://home.domain.com:8081/folder1, so I can get to the pages using the correct URI, but it doesn't stay in the address bar - it is redirected to the other port.
>>
>> It is further complicated because the data I want to serve includes streaming media, and this doesn't seem to cope with the 8081 port.
>>
>> I've been interested in the "mingle" emails today using proxies, but I can't get this to work either.
>>
>> Both machines are running Ubuntu.
>> server1: Ubuntu Karmic Koala 9.10 | Linux 2.6.31-22-generic | Apache/2.2.12 (Ubuntu)
>> server2: Ubuntu Lucid Lynx 10.04 LTS | Linux 2.6.32-22-generic | Apache/2.2.14 (Ubuntu)
>>
>> Many thanks, and please let me know if I've missed out any vital information!
>> Cheers,
>> matt
>
> Enable mod_proxy and mod_proxy_html, add this to the vhost you want
> /folder2 to appear on:
>
> <Location /folder2/>
> ProxyPass http://server2/folder1/
> ProxyPassReverse http://server2/folder1/
> </Location>
>
> Cheers
>
> Tom
Thank you very much Tom! It was very simple, but I hadn't been using the proxy_http module.
It was slightly complicated when it came to authentication - the http://home.domain.com site has digest authentication, and I assumed the location would inherit this, but it gave a permission error. As soon as I entered the Auth* directives into the location section as well as its parent, this has been fine.
Thanks,
matt
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Re: [users@httpd] How to serve pages from a hidden secondary server
Posted by Tom Evans <te...@googlemail.com>.
On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 3:08 PM, Tom Evans <te...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> Enable mod_proxy and mod_proxy_html, add this to the vhost you want
^^^^ mod_proxy_http
>
> Cheers
>
> Tom
>
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Re: [users@httpd] How to serve pages from a hidden secondary server
Posted by Tom Evans <te...@googlemail.com>.
On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 2:56 PM, Matt Easton <ma...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello there,
>
> I've just joined this group as I'm trying more complicated things now than I've done before in Apache! Please let me know if I'm not doing anything right. Thanks for your time.
>
> I have two computers on a home network, let's call them server1 and server2. They are both running an Apache server on port 80.
>
> server1 hosts my main external web pages, so my router routes http://home.domain.com to http://server1 (both on port 80)
> server2 hosts some private pages, testing, sharing resources etc for my home network.
>
> All is fine, except I now have some pages from server2 that I want to make available outside of my home network. These are in a folder on the main site, i.e. http://server2/folder1
>
> Ideally, I want this to be done in such a way that it is hidden from the user that they are in fact accessing a different server.
> Ideally I want them to go to http://home.domain.com/folder2 and actually be seeing http://server2/folder1
>
> I have tried doing this with mod_rewrite and failed. Is it possible to reference a different server with mod_rewrite, or can this only be used for files on the same machine?
>
> At the moment I have managed to serve the pages, by telling my router to forward port 8081 to server2:80. Hence, if I go to http://home.domain.com:8081/folder1 then I get the pages that I want. I have set up a Redirect directive on server1 so that http://home.domain.com/folder2 redirects to http://home.domain.com:8081/folder1, so I can get to the pages using the correct URI, but it doesn't stay in the address bar - it is redirected to the other port.
>
> It is further complicated because the data I want to serve includes streaming media, and this doesn't seem to cope with the 8081 port.
>
> I've been interested in the "mingle" emails today using proxies, but I can't get this to work either.
>
> Both machines are running Ubuntu.
> server1: Ubuntu Karmic Koala 9.10 | Linux 2.6.31-22-generic | Apache/2.2.12 (Ubuntu)
> server2: Ubuntu Lucid Lynx 10.04 LTS | Linux 2.6.32-22-generic | Apache/2.2.14 (Ubuntu)
>
> Many thanks, and please let me know if I've missed out any vital information!
> Cheers,
> matt
Enable mod_proxy and mod_proxy_html, add this to the vhost you want
/folder2 to appear on:
<Location /folder2/>
ProxyPass http://server2/folder1/
ProxyPassReverse http://server2/folder1/
</Location>
Cheers
Tom
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