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Set up reverse proxy

If we have a customer server that they don't want to expose to the outside world (for http), we can set up a reverse proxy on our external facing web server.

In the customer host

We set up a "regular" website with an arbitrary URL. In this example arbitrary url is "images.burnups.com.au"

/etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf:

<VirtualHost *:80>
     ServerAdmin support@crecom.com.au
     DocumentRoot /var/www/html/images/
     ServerName images.burnups.com.au

    Alias /printers /var/www/html/printers
    <Directory /var/www/html/printers>
        Options FollowSymLinks MultiViews ExecCGI
        AllowOverride Options
        Order allow,deny
        Allow from all
    </Directory>
     ErrorLog logs/images.burnups.com.au-error_log
     CustomLog logs/images.burnups.com.au-access_log common
</Virtualhost>

In the external facing web server:

/etc/hosts:

192.168.240.139 images.burnups.com.au

/etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf

<VirtualHost *:80>
        ServerName burnupsimages.crecom.com.au
        ProxyPass / http://images.burnups.com.au/
        ProxyPassReverse / http://images.burnups.com.au/

        ErrorLog logs/burnupsimages-error.log
        CustomLog logs/burnupsimages.log combined
</VirtualHost>

and go to DNS and make sure "burnupsimages.crecom.com.au" resolves to our outward facing server.