Putting RB behind Apache

[billw]

Okay, so I want to hide RB behind Apache on Windows XP. Many hours of Googling and hacking httpd.conf, and no luck. I think it involves reverse proxies, but I'm not sure.

What I'd like to do is make it so any queries going to billw.shacknet.nu/rb/ are routed to billw.shacknet.nu:8008/seaside/go/runbasicpersonal. I'm using Apache 2.2.4 (ack - need to upgrade to 2.2.6) - the Windows binary from the Apache website - and RB beta 3. Any pointers in the right direction are much appreciated!

[Jerry Muelver]

How about the Redirect directive in .htaccess?


Redirect /rb billw.shacknet.nu:8008/seaside/go/runbasicpersonal

should redirect any call containing the /rb path to your chosen destination. Maybe RedirectMatch with reg exp would give you more flexibility. You might also examine RedirectPermanent, since Redirect by itself tells the client the redirection is temporary.

[davec]

Hi Bill,

This is untested. In your httpd.conf try this;

ProxyPass /rb/ billw.shacknet.nu:8008/seaside/go/runbasicpersonal
ProxyPassReverse /rb/ billw.shacknet.nu:8008/seaside/go/runbasicpersonal

I think this technique is well used, but I've never personally tried it. (But I will soon )

Hope this helps (and works!)

Kind Regards,
Dave.

[davidcoker]

bump!

...can anyone confirm that this is a working option?

Much appreciated,
-Doc-

[carlgundel]

davidcoker said:

bump!

...can anyone confirm that this is a working option?

Much appreciated,
-Doc-

Yes. I run Run BASIC behind Apache v2.0.59. No problems.

-Carl

[davidcoker]

Thanks Carl.

Figured I'd actually ask some of these questions *before* I start heading down the path. Which if any of the instructions above were the correct steps?

[carlgundel]

davidcoker said:

Thanks Carl.

Figured I'd actually ask some of these questions *before* I start heading down the path. Which if any of the instructions above were the correct steps?

Here's what I did in httpd.conf:

1) I specified (actually just uncommented) the following module lines:
LoadModule proxy_module modules/mod_proxy.so
LoadModule proxy_http_module modules/mod_proxy_http.so
LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so

2) Set the server name
ServerName www.runbasic.com:80

3) Set the document root to be your public folder:
DocumentRoot "C:/rbp/public"

4) Add these lines to the end of the file to configure URL rewriting and proxying:
RewriteEngine On
ProxyVia Block
ProxyPreserveHost On
RewriteCond C:/rbp/public/%{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^/(.*)$ http://localhost:8008/seaside/go/runbasic/$1 [P,L]

That should do it for you.

-Carl

[davidcoker]

Thanks Carl!
...I hope to have everything setup and usable from the outside world, complete with a real domain in a few days.

Then we'll let the fun begin! 8)

-Doc-

[tnorvell]

Could RB be configured as the web page server? For basic HTML pages why not?
Maybe:

127.0.0.1/cpanel would pull up the username/password dialog.

and

127.0.0.1 would pull up index.htm

[votan]

In case some of you are having problems doing it with Carl's description, like I had... (login came up, but images etc failed loading) ... here is the complete and correct virtual host entry. (including error logs)


<VirtualHost *:80>

ServerAdmin [e-mail]
DocumentRoot C:/rbp/public
ServerName www.test.com
ErrorLog logs/test.com-error_log
CustomLog logs/test.com-access_log common

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine on
ProxyVia Block
ProxyPreserveHost On
RewriteCond C:/rbp/public/%{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^/(.*)$ http://localhost:8008/seaside/go/runbasic/$1 [P,L]
</IfModule>

</VirtualHost>


Now you can access RB either through "localhost" (if the server is running on your current machine), by IP (if the server is in your local net) or by a domain name (if you have set up a domain name / DNS). Replace all "test.com" with your actual domain name or IP... optional, you can limit listening to an IP by changing <VirtualHost *:80> into something like <VirtualHost 192.168.0.66:80> or whatever...

EDIT: I removed the bbcode (code)(/code) from my post, as it caused adding more bbcode to the server-name, what would cause a forbidden message when used that way.... so now it is correct.

[Psycho]

Votan,

Thanks for the information you posted on this.

Having never hosted a site before, I finally registered a free domain with DynDNS.com and initially used the RBP server alone to get a webpage hosted under port 80. After only a couple of days, I wanted to try something that would offer more overall flexibility and file handling beyond the active programming part of RunBASIC. After downloading Apache and running under Windows everything went well until I started the RB server and only saw the generic index.html page that Apache was serving. After going through the posts, this one got everything working perfectly for me. For an average home user, it's the best of both worlds. I can cheat and create quick pages with Word or Publisher (despite all the extra garbage they create), yet still have my applications in RB available to all ;D

For someone who had never hosted or knew anything about web servers (and really still doesn't), the posts on this board really helped me getting everything to work.

A second thanks to everyone that offers help and information here. It is truly invaluable.

John "Psycho" Siejkowski

[rich357]

For me, I need to install RB on an actual site that is hosted by a company. I don't have the luxury of being able to run a home based system and really don't see the need.
Installing RB on the PC is a snap. What is the procedure for installing onto a server that is already online? Has anyone actually done this?

[StefanPendl]

Feb 5, 2009 10:09:36 GMT -5 rich357 said:

For me, I need to install RB on an actual site that is hosted by a company.
---snip
What is the procedure for installing onto a server that is already online? Has anyone actually done this?

This highly depends on the servers O/S, is it a Linux host or a Windows based system
The service provider usually offers documentation on how to do things.

[mackrackit]

I have apache2 running on port 8035 on a linux box and RB on port 8008.

Running on a local network using this address
192.168.2.39:8035/seaside/go/runbasicpersonal
the browser returns Not Found.

What do I have wrong?

RewriteEngine On
ProxyVia Block
ProxyPreserveHost On
RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} !^8035$
RewriteCond /home/rb/rb101/public/%{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^/(.*)$ http://localhost:8008/seaside/go/runbasic:8008/$1 [R,L]


[votan]

make sure your virtual host is listening on the correct port.... then you also do not need to define the port in the condition.

<VirtualHost *:8035>

ServerAdmin [e-mail]
DocumentRoot /home/rb/rb101/public
ServerName www.yourwebsiteaddress.com
ErrorLog logs/yourwebsiteaddress.com.com-error_log

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine on
ProxyVia Block
ProxyPreserveHost On
RewriteCond /home/rb/rb101/public/%{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^/(.*)$ http://localhost:8008/seaside/go/runbasic/$1 [P,L]
</IfModule>

</VirtualHost>

Put all this into the vhosts section of the httpd.conf and make sure all needed modules are loaded....
Anyway, I do not have a linux system here to test it.. but should work.