The Temple of Fu

So if you want to proxy say an IIS server behind your Apache box, and hey lets be honest who wouldn’t want to, you can do it using mod_proxy and name based virtual hosting. Mod_proxy simply redirects requests for certain URLs to another web server.

Create a vhost definition.

<Virtualhost *>
  ServerName mysubdomain.domain.com
  ProxyPreserveHost On
  ProxyPass / http://192.168.1.1/
  ProxyPassReverse / http://192.168.1.1/
  SetEnv force-proxy-request-1.0 1
  SetEnv proxy-nokeepalive 1
</Virtualhost>

Have Apache re read it’s configuration and whammo!

Now you can have multiple flavors of web servers sitting behind a single IP! Sweet huh.

Resources:

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/mod_proxy.html