Apache redirect to another port

Question

You should leave out the domain http://example.com in ProxyPass and ProxyPassReverse and leave it as /. Additionally, you need to leave the / at the end of example/ to where it is redirecting. Also, I had some trouble with http://example.com vs. http://www.example.com - only the www worked until I made the ServerName www.example.com, and the ServerAlias example.com. Give the following a go.

<VirtualHost *:80> 
  ProxyPreserveHost On
  ProxyRequests Off
  ServerName www.example.com
  ServerAlias example.com
  ProxyPass / http://localhost:8080/example/
  ProxyPassReverse / http://localhost:8080/example/
</VirtualHost> 

After you make these changes, add the needed modules and restart apache

sudo a2enmod proxy && sudo a2enmod proxy_http && sudo service apache2 restart

I solved this issue with the following code:

LoadModule proxy_module modules/mod_proxy.so
LoadModule proxy_http_module modules/mod_proxy_http.so
<VirtualHost *:80>
ProxyPreserveHost On
ProxyRequests Off
ServerName myhost.com
ServerAlias ww.myhost.com
ProxyPass / http://localhost:8080/
ProxyPassReverse / http://localhost:8080/
</VirtualHost>

I also used:

a2enmod proxy_http

I wanted to do exactly this so I could access Jenkins from the root domain.

I found I had to disable the default site to get this to work. Here's exactly what I did.

$ sudo vi /etc/apache2/sites-available/jenkins

And insert this into file:

<VirtualHost *:80>
  ProxyPreserveHost On
  ProxyRequests Off
  ServerName mydomain.com
  ServerAlias mydomain
  ProxyPass / http://localhost:8080/
  ProxyPassReverse / http://localhost:8080/
  <Proxy *>
        Order deny,allow
        Allow from all
  </Proxy>
</VirtualHost>

Next you need to enable/disable the appropriate sites:

$ sudo a2ensite jenkins
$ sudo a2dissite default
$ sudo service apache2 reload

Hope it helps someone.

Found this out by trial and error. If your configuration specifies a ServerName, then your VirtualHost directive will need to do the same. In the following example, awesome.example.com and amazing.example.com would both be forwarded to some local service running on port 4567.

ServerName example.com:80

<VirtualHost example.com:80>
  ProxyPreserveHost On
  ProxyRequests Off
  ServerName awesome.example.com
  ServerAlias amazing.example.com
  ProxyPass / http://localhost:4567/
  ProxyPassReverse / http://localhost:4567/
</VirtualHost>

I know this doesn't exactly answer the question, but I'm putting it here because this is the top search result for Apache port forwarding. So I figure it'll help somebody someday.

You have to make sure that the proxy is enabled on the server. You can do so by using the following commands:

  a2enmod proxy
  a2enmod proxy_http

  service apache2 restart

This might be an old question, but here's what I did:

In a .conf file loaded by apache:

<VirtualHost *:80>
  ServerName something.com
  ProxyPass / http://localhost:8080/
</VirtualHost>

Explanation: Listen on all requests to the local machine's port 80. If I requested "http://something.com/somethingorother", forward that request to "http://localhost:8080/somethingorother". This should work for an external visitor because, according to the docs, it maps the remote request to the local server's space.

I'm running Apache 2.4.6-2ubuntu2.2, so I'm not sure how the "-2ubuntu2.2" affects the wider applicability of this answer.

After you make these changes, add the needed modules and restart apache

sudo a2enmod proxy && sudo a2enmod proxy_http && sudo service apache2 restart