Apache Intranet and SSH Tunneling

Question

I'm trying to configure Apache to serve some intranet pages. Access to the intranet is made using SSH tunneling. Using the tunnel, I would like to access http://intranet.boss and expect those pages, but instead I get "connection refused" in Firefox.

<VirtualHost 127.0.0.1:80>
DocumentRoot /var/www/boss
ServerName intranet.boss

Something like this.

Later: Working!

I needed to add 127.0.0.1 intranet.boss to /etc/hosts file.

what command are you using to establish your tunnel? Is apache definitely listening on port 80 (netstat)? — GeoSword, Aug 21 '13 at 21:18
are you sure that client will access 127.0.0.1 and not other ip? change configuration to `listen 0.0.0.0:80` and limit users/virtualhost by source ip's — GioMac, Aug 21 '13 at 21:48
@GioMac yes, only 127.0.0.1, so that it will be accessible only by ssh tunneling. — danator, Aug 22 '13 at 01:36

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 22 '13 at 06:16

Consider using the SOCKS proxy feature in SSH instead of port forwarding. With most command-line SSH clients, it's the -D option. Then, once you configure your browser to use the SOCKS proxy, you can just go to http://intranet.boss/, without having to hack /etc/hosts.

Apache Intranet and SSH Tunneling

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