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Adding Reverse Proxy for Plex to Apache vhost

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Introduction

It is easy to find apache vhost definitions for reverse proxying plex traffic. What this post does is show you how to include the parts needed, to provide a reverse proxy to plex, in an existing vhost. Why would you need this? I don't know. I did, and it was as easy as adding a few bits to represent the web address.

Adding reverse proxy for plex to Apache vhost

So in your vhost, add these lines:

        <Proxy *>
                Order deny,allow
                Allow from all
        </Proxy>
        ProxyRequests Off
        ProxyPass               /web/   http://www.ipa.example.com:32400/web/
        ProxyPassReverse        /web/   http://www.ipa.example.com:32400/web/
        <LocationMatch '^/web\/.*$'>
                RequestHeader set Front-End-Https "On"
                RewriteEngine On
                RewriteCond     %{REQUEST_URI}          !^/web
                RewriteCond     %{HTTP:X-Plex-Device}   ^$
                RewriteCond %{REQUEST_METHOD}   !^(OPTIONS)$
                RewriteRule ^/$ /web/$1 [R,L]
        </LocationMatch>

So the difference in this snippet from a separate vhost definition is that you proxypass only the /web/ location over to your Plex media server.

<VirtualHost 192.168.1.14:180>

    ServerName  example.no-ip.biz:80
    ServerAlias example.no-ip.biz example www www.ipa.example.com
    ServerAdmin bgstack15@gmail.com

    DocumentRoot    /var/www

    Options +Indexes
    IndexOptions IgnoreCase FancyIndexing FoldersFirst NameWidth=* DescriptionWidth=*
    IndexIgnore FOOTER.html repodata favicon.ico favicon.png
    ReadmeName FOOTER.html
    DirectoryIndex index.php index.html index.htm
    ServerSignature Off

    SetEnvIf Request_URI "ignoredfile.html" dontlog
    LogFormat "%V %h %l %u %t \"%r\" %>s %b \"%{Referer}i\" \"%{User-Agent}i\"" combinedvhost
    CustomLog logs/access_log combinedvhost env=!dontlog

    # Useful additions for a mirror server
    AddIcon /icons/rpm.png          .rpm
    AddIcon /icons/deb.png          .deb
    AddIcon /icons/repo.png         .repo
    AddType application/octet-stream .iso

    AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html text/plain text/xml text/css text/javascript
    BrowserMatch ^Mozilla/4 gzip-only-text/html
    BrowserMatch ^Mozilla/4\.0[678] no-gzip
    BrowserMatch \bMSIE !no-gzip !gzip-only-text/html

    TraceEnable off
    <FilesMatch "\.acl$">
        Deny from All
    </FilesMatch>
    &ltDirectory "/var/www/example">
        AllowOverride None
        Order allow,deny
        Allow from all
        Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
    </Directory>

       # Allows "centos.example.no-ip.biz" redirection to "example.no-ip.biz/centos" behavior
# RewriteEngine On
# RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^([^.]*)\.example\.no-ip\.biz$
# RewriteRule /(.*) http://example.no-ip.biz/%1/$1 [R,L]

    # reference: welcome.conf, reverseproxyforplex.conf
    # reference: http://matt.coneybeare.me/how-to-map-plex-media-server-to-your-home-domain/
    <Proxy *>
        Order deny,allow
        Allow from all
    </Proxy>
    ProxyRequests Off
    ProxyPass       /web/   http://www.ipa.example.com:32400/web/
    ProxyPassReverse    /web/   http://www.ipa.example.com:32400/web/
    <LocationMatch '^/web\/.*$'>
        RequestHeader set Front-End-Https "On"
            RewriteEngine On
        RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI}      !^/web
        RewriteCond %{HTTP:X-Plex-Device}   ^$
        RewriteCond %{REQUEST_METHOD}   !^(OPTIONS)$    
        RewriteRule ^/$ /web/$1 [R,L]
    </LocationMatch>

</VirtualHost>

References

Weblinks

  1. http://matt.coneybeare.me/how-to-map-plex-media-server-to-your-home-domain/

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