Redirecting an internal path to a virtual host
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03-07-2019 - |
Question
I have been working on a drupal test site for a while, which has a bunch of virtual hosts set up like this:
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin email@example.com
DocumentRoot "/path/to/root"
ServerName testsite1.example.com
</VirtualHost>
I have been using a modified host file to view each of these test sites, along the lines of:
12.0.0.1 localhost 20.02.2.22 testsite1.example.com 20.02.2.22 testsite2.example.com 20.02.2.22 testsite3.example.com
This has worked fine, however now I need to send the sites over to some people remotely who are not technical enough to modify their own host files and see it the way I do.
Is there a way I could set up Apache so that the url "http://20.02.2.22/testsite1" would forward to testsite1.example.com internally? I am using Drupal, and the site setup needs to see the "testsite1.example.com" so that it can correctly choose the instance to select. I have been looking through apache rewrite, but I am a bit of a newb at this so any help is much appreciated.
Solution
testsite1.example.com will only be resolved on your machine, so you cannot redirect. You can set up proxy with mod_proxy. Hope this works for you:
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin email@example.com
DocumentRoot "/path/to/root"
ServerName testsite1.example.com
ServerAlias 20.02.2.22
<Location /testsite1/>
ProxyPass http://testsite1.example.com/
</Location>
</VirtualHost>
OTHER TIPS
The way I show my local test sites is a combination of Dynamic DNS and port-forwarding.
Internally, my Drupal site is at [my machine ip] or localhost.
I setup a free dynamic dns name to my IP and then on my router, accept incoming requests on port to route to [my machine ip]
That way, they can see yoursite.dyndns.com, but its looking at your local copy.
Why you just don't buy a new domain name and point it to your server IP address... Or there are free domain solutions like:
http://www.dot.tk/en/index.html?lang=en
or
http://dyn.com/dns/
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