Simple Apache Proxying
I was recently working with Apache and a service running on Kris Zyp's Persevere project (which is beyond awesome). Persevere was pushing messages to my application which was running on Apache; the problem was that Persevere and Apache were running on different ports which technically made them cross-domain. In order to make the server believe the web service was on the same domain/port, I needed to use Apache proxying. I opened the conf/httpd.conf file and added the following magic to make that possible:
# Proxy requests to /data to persevere
ProxyPass /service http://localhost:8080/Status
ProxyPassReverse /service/ http://localhost:8080/Status
RewriteRule ^/service$ http://localhost:8080/Status$1 [P,L]
Now any reference to the directory "/Status" is proxied to the other port to receive the data! Apache proxying is a huge boost to your web application if you can trust the other domain/port.
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Not getting…. :-(
I don’t remember for sure, but off the top of my head don’t you have to enable the proxy module as well?
Good call Alan, you absolutely do.
That’s one of the best uses for apache proxying I’ve seen! Awesome!