Apache serving static files within VirtualHost

Question

I have the following VirtualHost configuration.

<VirtualHost *:80> ServerName myservername.website <Location /> ProxyPass http://localhost:5000/ ProxyPassReverse http://localhost:5000/ </Location> </VirtualHost> 

Currently there are a series of static files living in /var/www/static that the ProxyPass app is serving. I would rather that Apache served this.

I have no idea how to just say - "When a request to /static is received then serve it from /var/www/static on the filesystem". How do I do this?

Answer 1

You can use for example mod_rewrite

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/fr/mod/mod_rewrite.html

<VirtualHost *:80> ServerName myservername.website DocumentRoot /var/www/ RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !/static/ RewriteRule (.*) http://localhost:5000/ [P] </VirtualHost> 

Answer 2

Alias /static "/var/www/static" <Directory "/var/www/static"> Options FollowSymLinks </Directory