Serving website with Apache, with Nginx as interface?

[Yuriy Medvedev]

Sorry, backend1 its upstream in nginx configuration
upstream backend1 {
  #ip of Apache back-end
  server 192.168.0.1:8080;
}

2016-05-13 1:59 GMT+03:00 Alex Hall <ahall at autodist.com>:

> Thanks! I followed you, until the proxy_pass. What is backend1, and where
> is it defined? I know it's something you made up, but how does it know
> about Apache, or Apache about it?
>
> On May 12, 2016, at 17:56, Yuriy Medvedev <medvedev.yp at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi, you can use vhost in Apache and configure proxy_pass in nginx
> configuration
> For apache2 somthing like that
> <VirtualHost *:8080>
>   ServerName foo.bar
>
>   DocumentRoot /home/sites/
>   <Directory /home/sites/>
>       Order deny,allow
>       Allow from all
>   </Directory>
>
>   ErrorLog  /home/sites/logs/apache_error.log
>   CustomLog /home/sites/logs/apache_access.log combined
>
> etc.......
> </VirtualHost>
> For nginx
> server {
>     listen   80;
>     server_name foo.bar;
>
>     access_log /home/sites/logs/nginx_access.log;
>     error_log /home/sites/logs/nginx_error.log;
>
>     location / {
>         proxy_pass  http://backend1;
>  etc.....
>      }
> }
>
> 2016-05-13 0:34 GMT+03:00 Alex Hall <ahall at autodist.com>:
>
>> Hello all,
>> Here's what I'm trying to do. I have two sites, sd1.mysite.com and
>> sd2.mysite.com. The fun part is that sd1 is a Flask app, served by
>> Nginx. However, sd2 is OSTicket, which must be served by Apache, it seems.
>> Of course, Apache and Nginx can't listen to port 80 at the same time, and
>> as this is a subdomain on a local, Windows DNS, I can't make
>> sd2.mysite.com point to myip:8080 or anything like that.
>>
>> Thus, my best option appears to be this: Nginx listens to all incoming
>> traffic on 80. If the request is for anything to do with sd1, it handles it
>> just like it does now. However, if the request is for sd2, Nginx somehow
>> hands off the request to Apache, then returns what Apache gives it back to
>> the user.
>>
>> I've heard that people use Apache and Nginx together, but I haven't found
>> anyone who uses them to serve two subdomains, with Nginx as the "gateway"
>> and handler of one subdomain, and Apache as the handler for the other
>> subdomain. Is there any way to do this? Am I even making sense? Thanks for
>> any ideas anyone has.
>>
>> --
>> Alex Hall
>> Automatic Distributors, IT department
>> ahall at autodist.com
>>
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