Hi,

Any knowledgeable Apache users here? I am having trouble with a virtual host setup to proxy to and from a locally running application hosted on a different internal port. Everything is fine until the application tries to redirect to an external domain.

When, for example, the application tries to redirect to some.otherhost.com/page.html it is instead redirected to some.host.com/page.html where some.host.com is the application's virtual host. Any ideas?

thanks

```
<VirtualHost _default_:443>
ServerName some.host.com

<location />
ProxyPreserveHost On
ProxyPass http://127.0.0.1:8080/
ProxyPassReverse /
RequestHeader add "X-Forwarded-Proto" "https"
</location>
...
</VirtualHost>

```

If I remember correctly, I had it set up with:
ProxyPass "/" "http://127.0.0.1:8080"
ProxyPassReverse "/" "http://IP_address:_port" minus the _

But I could be wrong, my memory is not what it used to be

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The problem is this configuration changes -all- redirection domains to 'http://IP_address:_port', and not just some.host.com which I would expect.

Is there something in httpd.conf regarding redirect?

could it be because you specified the block as
instead of
?

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This happens because some.host.com is also the default vhost. So when visiting http://IP_address:_port you'll see the backend application.

Create another vhost to be used as the default, so the reverse proxy should work only when you visit some.host.com. I.e. use something like this:

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Thanks for the help all

It worked once I used the same url for ProxyPass as for ProxyPassReverse.

```
ProxyPass http://127.0.0.1:8080/
ProxyPassReverse http://127.0.0.1:8080/
```