Apache VirtualHost multiple transport protocols

Question

I am trying to use a VirtualHost on my server with mod_proxy to add an authentication layer to another server I am running. The authentication and basic loading work correctly, but a main page requires the use of a different layer 5 protocol, ws:// instead of http://. In the ProxyPass(Reverse) directives, I must supply the layer 5 protocol to use. I have tried not supplying the protocol, supplying two different virtualhosts with the different protocols in the opening tag, e.g.

<VirtualHost http://192.168.192.172:5440> 

and

<VirtualHost ws://192.168.192.172:5440> 

both of which fail on loading the server. Is there another directive I can add, or a different way of setting up the VirtualHost that will instead work? My current VirtualHost config is:

<VirtualHost *:5440> ProxyPass / "http://192.168.192.172:8080" ProxyPassReverse / "http://192.168.192.172:8080" ProxyPreserveHost On </VirtualHost> 

Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

Virtualhost does not work with full url scheme as in your first two examples, Virtualhost just takes ip:port or *:port or even default:port, but don't use names or full url schemes.

Correct examples:

<Virtualhost 192.168.192.172:5440> <Virtualhost 192.168.192.172:5440 192.168.192.172:5441> <Virtualhost *:5440> <VirtualHost _default_:5440> 

In the last virtualhost you need to match slashes in ProxyPass, if there is a ending slash in the source, add it to the target, if there is not, don't:

ProxyPass / http://192.168.192.172:8080/ ProxyPassReverse / http://192.168.192.172:8080/ 

or

ProxyPass /something http://192.168.192.172:8080/something 

As for ws, use mod_proxy_wstunnel

for example:

ProxyPass /ws/ ws://192.168.192.172/ ProxyPass /wss/ wss://192.168.192.172/