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Title: need help with forwarding webpage
Post by: nefkho on July 10, 2009, 05:59:48 AM: hi,

i need help with forwarding webpage, i have sme 7.4 and xp with wampserver.

what i need is to have have:

http://mydominan.com/wampserver

i tried adding hostname local but the output is

http://wampserver.mydominan.com/

just like having ibays, any one can help me?

thanks,
Title: Re: need help with forwarding webpage
Post by: mmccarn on July 10, 2009, 03:06:34 PM: We need some more info, I think.

It looks as though "wampserver" is a windows "apache, mysql, php" platform, so I assume it isn't running on your SME directly.

That leads me to assume that you have your SME server setup in server-gateway mode, with a "wampserver" setup on your internal network, and that you're trying to use "proxypass" to pass a specific ibay (or alternate domain) to the internal wampserver.

Is all of this correct so far?

If you want to get access to the wampserver from off-site using a different hostname than the one used by your SME server, have you configured that hostname in your public DNS?
Title: Re: need help with forwarding webpage
Post by: cactus on July 10, 2009, 03:21:35 PM: I suggest you conigure a proxypass to your internal WAMP server: http://wiki.contribs.org/SME_Server:Documentation:FAQ#Proxy_Pass
Title: Re: need help with forwarding webpage
Post by: nefkho on July 11, 2009, 02:37:08 AM: thanks, mmccarn that is correct, but i dont need the wampserver to be accessible externally, all i need is if i access my wampserver locally, i would have to www.mydomain.com/wmapserver just like having an ibay would it be possible?

i have sme and xp for the wampserver.

:)

thanks,
Title: Re: need help with forwarding webpage
Post by: mmccarn on July 11, 2009, 04:09:12 PM: I can think of three options:

ProxyPass
Figure out how to do what you want using Apache's ProxyPass directive (Apache docs here (http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mod_proxy.html#proxypass), SME Virtual Domain Howto here (http://wiki.contribs.org/SME_Server:Documentation:FAQ#Proxy_Pass), forum post with details for using ProxyPass to access Outlook Web Access here (http://forums.contribs.org/index.php/topic,40075.0.html))

ProxyPass will do what you want, but you'll end up needing some custom template fragments (I think).

Start by editing /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf; once your customizations work, put them into a custom template fragment named something like /etc/e-smith/templates-custom/etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf/95wampserver (the "95" is used by SME to determine where the template fragment will go in the output file; you may need to pick a different number to put the output at an earlier point in httpd.conf).

As long as you are modifying httpd.conf directly, you can easily undo any mods that cause problems using
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expand-template /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf; sv restart httpd-e-smith
http redirect
You could simply setup an http redirect in the "wampserver" ibay on your SME to redirect local users to the local address of the wampserver; put some code like that shown below into /home/e-smith/files/ibays/wampserver/html/index.html:
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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <title>nefkho net</title> <meta http-equiv="REFRESH" content="0;url=http://wampserver.mydomain.com"></HEAD> <BODY> You are being redirected to the wampserver </BODY> </HTML>

iframes
You may be able to do something similar using iframes:
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<html> <iframe src ="http://wampserver.mydomain.com" width="1024" height="768" </iframe> </html>
Title: Re: need help with forwarding webpage
Post by: nefkho on July 13, 2009, 03:28:57 AM: thanks,

will test the last 2 options and see which one is better :)

Nef