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Adriano P
Asked: 2017-05-27 07:41:10 +0800 CST

Bypass Location with Alias in Apache2

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I'd like to know how to use Apache as a reverse proxy for a specific path and as local server for its sub-paths.

For a specific location, I am using Apache as a reverse proxy (https://my.server.com/my-tools):

<Location /my-tools>
    Order allow,deny
    Allow from all
    ProxyPass http://10.1.1.11:3101/my-tools
    ProxyPassReverse http://10.1.1.11:3101/my-tools
</Location>

The thing is that for its assests I'd like to use the local server (https://my.server.com/my-tools/images/). I have tried adding Alias with no success:

Alias /my-tools/images/ /home/myself/public/images/
<Directory /home/myself/public/images/>
    Order allow,deny
    Allow from all
</Directory>

I tried also to add this, but it didn't work either:

<Location /my-tools/images/>
    SetHandler None
</Location>

It keeps redirecting to the remote server when I enter https://my.server.com/my-tools/images/myimage.png, for example.

apache2

1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    There's a direct example in the mod_proxy ProxyPass documentation:

    The ! directive is useful in situations where you don't want to reverse-proxy a subdirectory, e.g.

    <Location "/mirror/foo/">
    ProxyPass "http://backend.example.com/"
</Location>
<Location "/mirror/foo/i">
    ProxyPass "!"
</Location>

    In your situation that would be:

    <Location "/my-tools/images">
    ProxyPass "!"
    Alias "/home/myself/public/images"
</Location>
<Location "/my-tools/">
    ProxyPass http://10.1.1.11:3101/my-tools/
    ProxyPassReverse http://10.1.1.11:3101/my-tools/
</Location>

    Or with alternative syntax:

    ProxyPass "/my-tools/images" "!"
Alias "/my-tools/images" "/home/myself/public/images"
ProxyPass "/my-tools/" "http://10.1.1.11:3101/my-tools/"
ProxyPassReverse "/my-tools/" "http://10.1.1.11:3101/my-tools/"
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