Apache change vhost to forward name to external IP address

Question

I'm running Linux (Mac OSX) and MAMP. I want to set up my vhosts to point www.example.com to a specific external IP address 78.123.123.123.

How do I do this?

I've got as far as: changing my etc/hosts file

127.0.0.1       www.example.com

and adding this to my httpd.conf

<VirtualHost *>
DocumentRoot "89.111.119.119"
ServerName www.example.com
</VirtualHost>

Thanks in advance!

Nick

You need a reverse proxy for this. You should check out this topic: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9270956/basics-of-a-reverse-proxy-what-am-i-missing — Nicolas BRERO, Jul 12 '12 at 11:30

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 12 '12 at 14:53

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I was totally overthinking on this (or underthinking!?).

I just needed to change the hosts file:

99.99.99.99       www.example.com

answered Jul 12 '12 at 14:53

Nick

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