Topic: Route traffic to an index on a network connected server/PC

[shred67]

Good Afternoon all,

Very new to Apache web server so looking for a few pointers.

I have installed Apache 2.4.53 on a Windows 10 machine for testing. I have successfully installed 3 websites in the htdocs folder and have created links to the site through the httpd-vhosts.conf. I can now reach all of the sites through my web explorer.

Is there a way to route incoming clients to a site that is on another machine attached to the same network?

Something like the following:

[Otomatic]

Hi,

DocumentRoot must be the path to a folder, not to a file ans must use slash / not backslash \ even in Windows.

See : https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/en/mod/core.html#documentroot

[shred67]

Thank you for the speedy reply and for pointing out my schoolboy errors.

So I am presuming that as long as the server can see the file over the network then it is possible to present the site out to clients?

[tangent]

DocumentRoot needs to be local to the Apache server, but you can present content shared from a remote server using an alias.

In the past I've used a UNC share reference to remote site content as follows:

[James Blond]

There might be also the need to change the user for the apache service. The default system account isn't allowed to access external drives / paths.

[tangent]

Thanks James for pointing out this omission. You're absolutely right; a named account is needed, which brings with it potential problems with password ageing (if AD domain policies apply).

[shred67]

Thanks for the pointers I will give this a go.