huanix

I will not lie. I struggled for the better part of 3 hours trying to get my virtualhost set properly to allow me to redirect incoming internet traffic from my main server to a server on my lan, all using port 80. Here’s what worked for me.

1. Enable mod proxy and mod http_proxy with:

   sudo a2enmod proxy

   sudo a2enmod http_proxy

2. Create a blank virtual host in your sites-available:
   

   sudo touch /etc/apache2/sites-available/neatserver

3. Open the virtual server (i use ssh into a graphical desktop - it allows copy & paste!):
   

   sudo nano /etc/apache2/sites-available

4. here’s the virutal host info (note: this is my WHOLE virtual host for this site on the forwarding server!):

   NameVirtualHost *
   <VirtualHost>
   ServerName www.neatserver.com
   DocumentRoot /var/www/neatserver
   ProxyRequests Off
    
   <proxy> 
   Order deny,allow
   Allow from all 
   </proxy>
    
   ProxyPass / http://192.168.1.101/
   ProxyPassReverse / http://192.168.1.101/
   </VirtualHost>

5. enable the site in apache
   

   sudo a2ensite neatserver

6. Restart Apache, and it Should (might) work!
   

   sudo apache2 -k restart