Topic: How to remove port number from URL?

[Firstborn]

Hello everyone, I'm kind of a newbie, so I'm stuck at this (at least seemingly) trivial thing... I've got a windows box running Apache 2.0.59, which works just fine and is accessible via a URL like http://www.domain.net/. On the same box there is another web server running, which is, in turn, accessible via http://www.domain.net:8888/. Plain ugly.

All I want is to make that other server accessible via some good and clean looking URL, e.g. http://www.domain.net/herewego/.

I know it is possible, I know it involves virtual hosts, mod_proxy and mod_proxy_html, but it seems impossible for me to put everything together. I managed to google some 2 or 3 recipes of how to achieve this, but none of those actually worked for me. No idea why.

So, I'd apprecaite if someone could throw in here a httpd.conf snippet that would do the trick.

Thank you in advance!

[Steffen]

Be sure to uncomment in your httpd.conf:

LoadModule proxy_module modules/mod_proxy.so
LoadModule proxy_http_module modules/mod_proxy_http.so

Add at the bottom of your httpd.conf:

ProxyRequests Off
ProxyPass /herewego http://www.domain.net:8888/herewego
ProxyPassReverse /herewego http://www.domain.net:8888/herewego

Steffen

[Firstborn]

Thanks, Steffen, but this was in fact the first thing that I've tried and it didn't work. After implementing all the changes you mentioned with a slight correction (http://www.domain.net/herewego should point to http://www.domain.net:8888, not http://www.domain.net:8888/herewego) and pointing a browser to http://www.domain.net/herewego I'm getting a the login page from the service running on port 8888, but no stylesheets, no images, no nothing. Trying to login produces a 404 error, so it seems that links are broken internally at some point.

Any further advice?

[Steffen]

Have a look at http://apache.webthing.com/mod_proxy_html/

A windows binary is at the download page.

Steffen