Point a local domain to localhost:3000

Question

Hey, I would love to point a local domain to localhost:3000 or other ports on which I am running my Wubrick instances (for Rails)

I can not find an apache2 config to point a local domain to these wubrick instances (or simply localhost:3000). Can some one please help me with that?

Regards,
Nikhil Gupta

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered May 14 '11 at 17:20

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OK. Found the solution, as below:

<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost
    ServerName rails.new
    ServerAlias www.rails.new rails
    PassengerEnabled Off
    ProxyPass / http://127.0.0.1:3000/
    ProxyPassReverse / http://127.0.0.1:3000/
</VirtualHost>

answered May 14 '11 at 17:20

Stoic

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How does this work, doesn't *:80 mean look for port 80? – Justin Sep 29 '15 at 20:26
@Justin, ProxyPass makes the job. You create a kind of gateway to your app running on a different IP/port. – Przemek Maczewski Mar 12 '16 at 12:26
@Stoic, I'll mention that one might have to enable mod_proxy before. `sudo a2enmod mod_proxy` – Przemek Maczewski Mar 12 '16 at 12:29

Point a local domain to localhost:3000

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