Title: Reverse Proxy
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Reverse Proxy

 *  [sublime82](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sublime82/)
 * (@sublime82)
 * [15 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/reverse-proxy-1/)
 * We have two websites that are both running Apache:
 * **Main Public Website:** [http://www.example.com](http://www.example.com) –> 
   just a regular old HTML Site
    **Worpress Blog:** [http://1.2.3.4/wordpress](http://1.2.3.4/wordpress)–
   > Just a WordPress blog and that’s it.
 * On our main public website([http://www.example.com](http://www.example.com)),
   we are looking to publish the WordPress Blog([http://1.2.3.4/wordpress](http://1.2.3.4/wordpress))
   in a subdirectory without physically installing the site onto the public website
   server:
 * [http://www.example.com/blogs-landing-page/wordpress-blog](http://www.example.com/blogs-landing-page/wordpress-blog)
 * The “blogs-landing-page” is a directory that points to the root of our WordPress
   server ([http://1.2.3.4/](http://1.2.3.4/)) and contains an index.php file that
   basically displays a link to the “wordpress” subdirectory where our blog is located.
 * So in order to do this we set up a Proxy in the apache configuration file on 
   our public website([http://www.example.com](http://www.example.com)) using the
   following configuration:
 *     ```
       ProxyPass /blogs-landing-page/ http://1.2.3.4/
       ProxyPassReverse /blogs-landing-page/ http://1.2.3.4/
       ProxyPreserveHost on
       RewriteRule ^/blogs-landing-page/$ http://www.example.com/blogs-landing-page/ [R]
       ```
   
 * This configuration successfully displays the landing page in our root directory(
   [http://1.2.3.4/](http://1.2.3.4/)) at [http://www.example.com/blogs-landing-page/](http://www.example.com/blogs-landing-page/)
   but won’t properly display the blog([http://1.2.3.4/wordpress](http://1.2.3.4/wordpress))
   at [http://www.example.com/blogs-landing-page/wordpress-blog/](http://www.example.com/blogs-landing-page/wordpress-blog/)
 * Within WordPress, I’ve changed the HOME-URL and SITE-URL to just about every 
   different variation I could think of:
 * * [http://1.2.3.4/wordpress/](http://1.2.3.4/wordpress/)
    * [http://1.2.3.4/](http://1.2.3.4/)*
   [http://www.example.com/](http://www.example.com/) * [http://www.example.com/blogs-landing-page/wordpress-blog/](http://www.example.com/blogs-landing-page/wordpress-blog/)
 * The only time the blog will work is if I set the HOME-URL to “[http://1.2.3.4/wordpress/&#8221](http://1.2.3.4/wordpress/&#8221);
   which is not what we want because we want the URLs to display as “[http://www.example.com/blogs-landing-page/wordpress-blog/&#8221](http://www.example.com/blogs-landing-page/wordpress-blog/&#8221);.
   What is weird is if I physically type in the URL’s for certain pages the pages
   will successfully load up:
 * ex:
    - [http://www.example.com/blogs-landing-page/wordpress-blog/about](http://www.example.com/blogs-landing-page/wordpress-blog/about)
    - [http://www.example.com/blogs-landing-page/wordpress-blog/2010/10/13/test-blog-post/](http://www.example.com/blogs-landing-page/wordpress-blog/2010/10/13/test-blog-post/)
 * But if I change the HOME URL from “[http://1.2.3.4/wordpress/&#8221](http://1.2.3.4/wordpress/&#8221);
   to “[http://www.example.com/blogs-landing-page/wordpress-blog/&#8221](http://www.example.com/blogs-landing-page/wordpress-blog/&#8221);
   the pages will not display any content.
 * I have searched just about everywhere and it seems like people have successfully
   overcame this issue by setting up their site behind a proxy with a Virtual Host
   in the httpd.conf of Apache. I suggested this to the Server Admin who is helping
   me, but he says we are unable to set up a Virtual Host.
 * Any ideas? I’m desperate and would greatly appreciate any help!

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 * Last activity: [15 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/reverse-proxy-1/)
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