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cnaut
cnaut

Reputation: 154

Creating a reverse proxy

How do you create a reverse proxy? I want to create a site that uses a table of urls with identifiers for each url. If you go to http://site.com/id where id is an identifier for a url it would act as a reverse proxy and retrieve the content from the url.

I looked into using apache reverse proxy features but there doesn't seem to be a way to scale it without restarting the server every time you need to reverse proxy a new site.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 888

Answers (1)

Andy
Andy

Reputation: 17771

Using Apache to create a reverse proxy using mod_rewrite in the main httpd.conf (under the relevant if applicable):

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www.)?mydomain.com [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/id$
RewriteRule ^.*$ http://www.proxydomain.com/newUrl [P,L]

First line checks for www.mydomain.com or mydomain.com

Second line identifies the /id portion of the URL

If the first two conditions are met the request is made by Apache to www.proxydomain.com/newUrl and then returned to the client.

You don't have to fully restart Apache to make these changes. Do a config check and then restart gracefully, which doesn't take the server offline and reloads configuration:

/etc/init.d/httpd configtest && /etc/init.d/httpd graceful

Alternatively this code can go into an .htaccess file, which is less preferable.

Upvotes: 1

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