ReverseProxy help.

How to pass static content requests to another server

[Cyberpundit]

Hi. I have set up Nginx to handle static content so that Apache's "prefork" processes are focused on doing the heavylifting related to PHP.

Nginx is working. I set it up on the same server, but a different port. Confirmed working at [EXAMPLEDOMAIN.com:81....]

Inside Apache I now want to internally redirect all my access to images to NGINX:

ProxyRequests Off
ProxyPreserveHost On
ProxyPass /main/images http://0.0.0.0:81/
ProxyPassReverse / http://0.0.0.0:81/

But this is not working as I think it would.

The following URL is live and works:

EXAMPLEDOMAIN.COM:81/test.gif

(nginx)

This gives a 404:

EXAMPLEDOMAIN.COM/main/images/test.gif

(apache)


Any ideas what I can change to make this work? aren't the Apache setting correct?

Thanks!

Thanks!

[jdMorgan]

In most cases like this, the paths specified for ProxyPass and ProxyPassReverse should be the same.

Make sure this config block isn't located inside a <Location> container that would further (and undesirably) qualify it. Also, ProxyPass and ProxyPassReverse cannot be used inside <Directory> or <Files> containers.

Jim

[Cyberpundit]

Thanks Jim. Can this be inside a VirtualHost container? Right now it is outside, just at the end of httpd.conf, and still NOT working.

I even changed the 0.0.0.1 to 127.0.0.1:

ProxyRequests    Off
ProxyPreserveHost  On
ProxyPass      /site/images   http://127.0.0.1:81/
ProxyPassReverse   /site/images   http://127.0.0.1:81/

This is still giving 404. In error_log, apache just says file not found or unable to stat.

I have checked through "httpd -M" and all the proxy modules are in fact enabled!

What am I missing? Thanks.