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tkmilbaugh
Joined: 21 Aug 2025
Posts: 1
Location: USA
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 Posted: Thu 21 Aug '25 14:46 Post subject: Complicated requirements |
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I have an existing, working httpd setup, running in a container, that uses a list of rewrite rules for redirecting obsolete URLs, and a reverse proxy setting to pass all other requests to another app, running in a second container in my Kubernetes pod.
What I want to add to the setup is a list of partial URLs that will serve static content from an attached shared drive. If a request like one of these comes along:
https://my-host.com/this/*
https://my-host.com/that/*
then I will map the request to a static file in:
/path/to/my/content/this
/path/to/my/content/that
Any request not matching any of these patterns will continue to be proxied to my application.
I have read a lot of Apache documentation, but I have not quite figured out how to do this. Is it possible?
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tangent
Moderator
Joined: 16 Aug 2020
Posts: 395
Location: UK
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| Posted: Fri 22 Aug '25 15:10 Post subject: |
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You should be able to achieve this requirement using suitable AliasMatch directives, followed by selective proxy requests, e.g.:
| Code: | # Alias requests for /this/* and /that/* to local shared content
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AliasMatch "^/this/(.*)$" "/path/to/my/content/this/$1"
AliasMatch "^/that/(.*)$" "/path/to/my/content/that/$1"
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If the path to your local shared content is outside of the Apache DocumentRoot, you'll need to grant anonymous access to it, e.g.:
| Code: | # Grant access to shared content
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<DirectoryMatch "/path/to/my/content/(this|that)/">
Require all granted
</DirectoryMatch>
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You can then proxy requests for all other content within a suitable LocationMatch directive (note the following uses a negative lookahead regex), e.g.:
| Code: | # Proxy requests other than /this/* /that/*
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<LocationMatch ^/(?!this|that)(.*)$>
ProxyPass http://my-proxy-host.com/$1
ProxyPassReverse http://my-proxy-host.com/$1
</LocationMatch>
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