How do I configure Apache to forward some URLs to two resin containers?

Question

Good day,

I have two resin servers - r-server-a and r-server-b. I created two because both have web applications that need to be in the root context path '/' (and using same port '80').

However, both web applications need to see each other (i.e. access the other application's resources & pages). Which is why I thought I'd use an apache server to handle the two.

How do I do that?

Thanks

Answer 1

What you need is mod_proxy in Apache, in the apache config (like the virtual host config) put:

ProxyPass / http://localhost:8080/<web-app context root>/
ProxyPassReverse / http://localhost:8080/<web-app context root>/

Answer 2

Both using same port means not the same IP. that might be same machine two instances each bound to one NIC or two separate machines. This is not that clear from the question, however, it does not matter for that much.

For several reasons I would pick NGINx as a reversed proxy (instead of apache) and configure it accordingly.

See at tornado's documentation how they do that for tornado (in that case, 4 instances on each server) and copy the concept to your location. Good luck.