Ok I know this has to be simple yet I have not figured it out yet. I wanna rewrite to and to I hate for people to see in their browser address bar when they visit the site. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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URL Rewriting...
- Thread starter Johnb175
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What you really want is the reverse
Try this. Make your primary site entry point :
Then use proxypass and proxypassreverse
This requires an apache listening on port 80 of course.
You can get more tricky with mod_rewrite but if you don't know that you need it then you probably do not need it.
Try this. Make your primary site entry point :
Then use proxypass and proxypassreverse
Code:
ProxyPass / [URL unfurl="true"]http://www.site.com:8000/[/URL]
ProxyPassReverse / [URL unfurl="true"]http://www.site.com:8000/[/URL]This requires an apache listening on port 80 of course.
You can get more tricky with mod_rewrite but if you don't know that you need it then you probably do not need it.
- Thread starter
- #3
Well I have two different sites on the same machine. I am using ssl on both sites by running each site on a different port number. (8000 and 9000) I have it setup when someone types in it automatically redirects them to And the same for the second domain when someone types it redirects to I just do not want the port to be visible in the address bar for these sites. Will the code you typed above work in this situation? Thanks
Why not just let SSL run on port 443 like its supposed to? Then your URL looks like
- Thread starter
- #5
why is that? I have well over 100 vhosts running on the same box with a single IP address...
Just change the port 80 to 443 and set your ssl params in the vhost and your in business.
Code:
NameVirtualHost YOUR_IP_ADDRESS
<VirtualHost YOUR_IP_ADDRESS:80>
ServerName [URL unfurl="true"]www.domain.com[/URL]
ServerAlias domain.com
.. bla bla bla....
</VirtualHost>Just change the port 80 to 443 and set your ssl params in the vhost and your in business.
- Thread starter
- #7
Yes but that will not work for ssl enabled vhost. I think I tried that when I set it up. SSL does not know how to handle host headers. That is why I have a vhost setup on port 80 so that when someone types in it redirects to If I didn't do that I would have to tell the person to visit my website at which would really suck. See where I am going here?
I'm using stronghold but its apache based so this should work for you as well, from the stock config
Code:
### Section 3: Virtual Hosts
#
# VirtualHost: If you want to maintain multiple domains/hostnames on your
# machine you can setup VirtualHost containers for them. Most configurations
# use only name-based virtual hosts so the server doesn't need to worry about
# IP addresses. This is indicated by the asterisks in the directives below.
#
# Please see the documentation at <URL:[URL unfurl="true"]http://www.apache.org/docs/vhosts/>[/URL]
# for further details before you try to setup virtual hosts.
#
# You may use the command line option '-S' to verify your virtual host
# configuration.
#
# Use name-based virtual hosting.
#
#NameVirtualHost *
#
# VirtualHost example:
# Almost any Apache directive may go into a VirtualHost container.
# The first VirtualHost section is used for requests without a known
# server name.
#
#<VirtualHost *>
# ServerAdmin webmaster@dummy-host.example.com
# DocumentRoot /[URL unfurl="true"]www/docs/dummy-host.example.com[/URL]
# ServerName dummy-host.example.com
# ErrorLog logs/dummy-host.example.com-error_log
# CustomLog logs/dummy-host.example.com-access_log common
#</VirtualHost>
#<VirtualHost _default_:*>
#</VirtualHost>- Status