ProxyPass and DocumentRoot on one domain

Question

Let's say I have the following configuration:

<VirtualHost domain.com>
    # Server names, admins, logs etc...

    ProxyVia On
    ProxyRequests Off
    <Location "/">
        ProxyPass http://localhost:8080/tomcat-webapp/
        ProxyPassReverse http://localhost:8080/tomcat-webapp/
        Order allow,deny
        Allow from all
    </Location>
</VirtualHost>

Now, I want the address domain.com/forum to display content of my MyBB forum, which has its files inside the /var/www/forum directory. How to accomplish this?

score 40 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 28 '13 at 12:08

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Actually, I resolved this problem with the following code:

ProxyPass /forum !
ProxyPass / http://localhost:8080/tomcat-webapp/
ProxyPassReverse / http://localhost:8080/tomcat-webapp/
Alias /forum /var/www/forum

answered Apr 28 '13 at 12:08

fracz

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Any idea about this question? Thanks! http://stackoverflow.com/questions/31271434/apache-mod-proxy-with-tomcat-and-svn – Amir Jamak Jul 08 '15 at 06:45
@fracz can you post whole .conf file here ? – shyammakwana.me Jul 23 '20 at 06:43
Sort of works, but it seems like the permissions are wrong vs using `Directory`? – wogsland Oct 19 '20 at 14:19
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It worked! Thanks. Also, for someone noob like me, just replace the whole .. tag with this -- basically don't add it inside the tag, replace the whole tag with this text . Took a while to realise – Nertan Lucian Aug 19 '22 at 15:03
it would nice if you put your whole configuration. I'm new to this thing and not really sure where to put things – Ago Mar 03 '23 at 15:51

score 3 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 26 '13 at 22:12

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What it is recommending is using mod_rewrite to perform the ProxyPass instead of ProxyPass/ProxyPassReverse command.

Try something like:

RewriteRule  ^/forum   -  [L]
RewriteRule  ^/(.*)    http://localhost:8080/tomcat-webapp/$1  [P,L]
ProxyPassReverse /     http://localhost:8080/tomcat-webapp/

answered Apr 26 '13 at 22:12

Welsh

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This requires `Alias /forum /var/www/forum` to be set before for the rewrite rule to go anywhere. – Mr. Doomsbuster Aug 09 '17 at 22:51

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Mar 03 '17 at 22:22

I use:

<VirtualHost *:80>
#other irrelevant configs here
ProxyPass /forum http://localhost:8080/myBB
ProxyPassReverse /forum http://localhost:8080/myBB
ProxyPass / http://localhost:8081/tomcat-app
ProxyPassReverse / http://localhost:8081/tomcat-app
</VirtualHost>

You don't have to say "tomcat-app" if your tomcat app is the root app.

ProxyPass and DocumentRoot on one domain

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