Re: Redirect/Proxy questions

On 8/17/25 1:58 AM, Bret Stern wrote:
> Oh I see, you're giving me an example of the text to place in the 
> configuration file.
> 
> I'll search on proxy in the Apache docs, see if I can figure it out.
> 
> The subdomain.examplesite.com DNS points to the same address as the 
> primary website. The server where nextcloud runs
> 
> is in the same data center rack on the same lan.
> 
> 
> Read this can use alot more traffic, ....than maybe changing my dns, 
> installing another router with it's own static ip in the rack and have the
> 
> link route to the nextcloud server that way.
> 
> Any comments?
> 
> I'll try to get the reverse proxy working so I understand how to 
> configure it at least.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> 
> 
> On 8/16/2025 4:21 PM, Frank Gingras wrote:
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Aug 16, 2025 at 6:41 PM Bret Stern 
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>     Thanks for the suggestion. FYI, my actual domain is not sample.com
>>     <http://sample.com>, I was just using it as an example.
>>
>>     Can you double check that link you included, it's not working and
>>     I want to see the link you refer to.
>>
>>     Best,
>>
>>     Bret
>>
>>     On 8/16/2025 1:22 PM, Daniel Ferradal Márquez wrote:
>>>
>>>     On 16/8/25 7:04, Bret Stern wrote:
>>>     > Have a site  www.sample.com <http://www.sample.com> > > From within the site I
>>>     want to a link a subdomain to a nextcloud > server nc.sample.com
>>>     <http://nc.sample.com> on the local lan relative to the primary
>>>     www > apache > > server. > > > I can add another router with a
>>>     static ip, change dns for > nc.sample.com <http://nc.sample.com>
>>>     and link to the subdomain using that ip, and serve > nextcloud
>>>     that way. > > But I am wondering which (Redirect or Proxy)
>>>     methods would work, to > direct traffic to the nc.sample.com
>>>     <http://nc.sample.com>. Or if it is good or bad > practice. > >
>>>     Thanks for suggestions > > Bret > --
>>>
>>>     Hello,
>>>
>>>     To me it seems you want to set up a reverse proxy to yout
>>>     nextcloud server. If you set to proxy only specific paths it will
>>>     eve make it more secure, for example ProxyPass /nextcloud/
>>>     https://subdomain-nexcloud.example.com/nextcloud/
>>>
>>>     ---
>>>     Daniel
>>>     Help at #httpd in Libera.chat
>>>
>>
>> The target, https://subdomain-nexcloud.example.com/nextcloud/, is an 
>> example here.  Modify it to match your DNS.



-- 
For the record, when you proxy to a SSL/TLS backend with https://xxx you 
need to add the additional directive "SSLProxyEngine on" to work.

In any case, when something does not work, just check the error.log or 
virtualhost error log from Apache HTTPD server, it will point out what 
is going on, as "doesn´t work" is too broad to be useful.

-Daniel
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