How can I redirect http traffic?

Question

My clients sends requests to http://localhost:80/test/string. However my processing unit is at http://localhost:9080/servlet/Endpoint?req=test.

I want this redirection to take place transparently of the client. My client should take the response from http://localhost:9080/servlet/Endpoint?req=test still believing that the response came from http://localhost:80/test/string.

How can be done? Is it possible to do it using a proxy server?

Answer 1

An other solution is that you setup a reverse proxy with apache with proxy_http module (included by default):

the config file should be something like:

ProxyRequests off
ProxyPass / http://localhost:9080/
ProxyPassReverse / http://localhost:9080/

Then play with mod_rewrite.

• reverse proxy with apache
• mod_rewrite