I recently came across this question on ServerFault:
So, I felt like I might be able to help the gentleman. Now, let's bear in mind his question: "I don't want to write port number everytime". He does not say, "I never want to write port number", just that it should be possible to render the page with a URL that does not append the port number. Ensuring that the port number is never written would require the solution below in addition to another step - there are a few ways to resolve it, but mod_rewrite would be the most obvious / most well known. Some of the other solutions might depend upon what version of Apache is being used, like an <if> directive for example.
In any event, here is what I provided to the questioner, which is quite similar to what I have implemented previously and serves my purposes quite well (notice I am using his somewhat strange hostname nomenclature):
" I've subsonic application running of [sic] tomcat. Everything else works on apache. I don't want to write port number everytime [sic] so I'd like to set-up [sic] a simple directory where subsonic will be accessible. So, I'm trying to make virtualhost file [sic] inside apache dir. [...] I tried many variations, but cannot make anything work. "The poor chap than [sic - ha!] provided an example of his latest go at the problem, an excerpt from his httpd.conf file:
<VirtualHost *:80>
DocumentRoot /var/www/streamer
ProxyPass / http://mini.local:4040/
ProxyPassReverse / http://mini.local:4040/</VirtualHost> So, I felt like I might be able to help the gentleman. Now, let's bear in mind his question: "I don't want to write port number everytime". He does not say, "I never want to write port number", just that it should be possible to render the page with a URL that does not append the port number. Ensuring that the port number is never written would require the solution below in addition to another step - there are a few ways to resolve it, but mod_rewrite would be the most obvious / most well known. Some of the other solutions might depend upon what version of Apache is being used, like an <if> directive for example.
In any event, here is what I provided to the questioner, which is quite similar to what I have implemented previously and serves my purposes quite well (notice I am using his somewhat strange hostname nomenclature):
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName mini.local
ProxyRequests Off
ProxyPreserveHost On
<Proxy *>
AddDefaultCharset Off
Order deny,allow
Allow from all
</Proxy>
ProxyPass / http://mini.local:4040/
ProxyPassReverse / http://mini.local:4040/
</VirtualHost>