Assigning different uri paths to different servers

Question

I have the following situation:

There is a domain with offers different services like a blog, a forum and a wiki whic are reachable via different URI paths all at e.g. IP 123.123.123.123:

www.example.com/blog
www.example.com/forum
... etc.

Now, e.g. the forum should be hosted by a different server from the one the domain itself relates to. In case the domain uses subdomains like , etc. are easy since I can assign a different IP to each subdomain. However how may this be achieved with different paths? Do I have to do some rewrite rules in the vhost of the apache webserver? Something else? An example will be cool.

Cheers and thank you for any hint or pointer

Search for "Apache reverse proxy", and study the guides available and then return back if you have any specific questions. — Tero Kilkanen, Aug 09 '14 at 12:34
Since my comment will be too long I will add an answer though this is discouraged. — kghbln, Aug 09 '14 at 18:25

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 09 '14 at 18:34

Thanks for the pointer. So a proxy is indeed the way to go. So from what I have read I have to do the following:

1. Create a subdomain at example.com, e.g. blog.example.com

2. Create the vhost on the remote server and do the redirect rules and other stuff so that content is emitted like http://blog.example.com/blog. The regular stuff as if no proxying is involved.

3. Add the following to the local server's vhost for www.example.com (mod_proxy_html version older than 3.1):

ProxyRequests Off SetOutputFilter proxy-html ProxyHTMLExtended On ProxyPass /blog/ http://blog.example.com/ ProxyHTMLURLMap http://blog.example.com /blog <Location /blog/> ProxyPassReverse / ProxyHTMLURLMap / /blog/ ProxyHTMLURLMap /blog /blog RequestHeader unset Accept-Encoding </Location>

4. Point blog.example.com to the remote server by adding its IP to the A-Record of the subdomain.

5. Done.

Assigning different uri paths to different servers

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