How to set up proxy in .htaccess

Question

The Apache documentation states that RewriteRule and the should be put in the server configuration, but they can be put in htaccess because of shared hosting situations. I a

Answer 1

Unfortunately, I'm fairly sure what you want to do isn't possible: I'm trying to do the exact same thing! From my research, I'm fairly confident it's not possible.

Put simply, you need to use ProxyPassReverse, which is only available at a VirtualHost level (or similar); not a htaccess level.

Edit: the only way I have achieved this is by also configuring the responding server/application to know it's behind a proxy, and serving pages appropriately. That is, I use .htaccess to redirect to another server as follows:

  RewriteEngine on
  RewriteRule  (.*)  http://localhost:8080/$1  [P,L] 

Then on the application server -- in this case, a JIRA installation -- I configured the Java Tomcat/Catalina appropriately to serve pages with the proxied information:

 proxyName="my.public.address.com"
 proxyPort="80"

However, that's not completely transparent; the app server needs to serve pages in a proxied manner. It might be of some use, though.