I have a non-Apache server listening to port 8001 and Apache listening port 80. I want a certain virtual domain to actually be served by the non-Apache server over port 80.
Example:
<VirtualHost *:80>
Servername example.com
# Forward this on to the server on port 8001
</VirtualHost>
I thought I could do this with mod_proxy and ProxyPass with something like this.
ProxyPass * http://www.example.com:8001/
But that doesn't work.
Answer
ProxyPass * http://www.example.com:8001/
star is only valid in a block. Forward slash is what you want.
ProxyPass / http://www.example.com:8001/
ProxyPassReverse / http://www.example.com:8001/
The reverse proxy ensures that redirects sent by your port 8001 server are adjusted to the canonical name name of your proxy.
The apache manual has some examples. http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/mod_proxy.html