Set up subdomains

Hello,

I want to make the following happen:

I have somedomain.com and want to create subdomains. I already saw that you can do that with Apache using VirtualHosts but then you can only specify a DocumentRoot. What I want is some kind of forward to another IP address in the same network. Example:
sub1.somedomain.com -> 192.168.0.1:80
sub2.somedomain.com -> 192.168.0.2:7777
etc...

Can anybody tell me how to set something like this up? Can it be done with Apache? Or is it something my router should handle?

 

using dns make A records for the sub domains

 

ok personal i would use an proxy mod in apche

where i setup an vhost for that sub2
and forward it to the other box inside my network / port

and its just sub2.mysite.com = 192.168.0.2:777 *inside the network*

last thing you want is to remember ports for normal users
UNLESS its an admin / private / test / other site

 

Thanks for the advice to use mod proxy! I didn't hear about this one yet. I started looking for how to configure that and ended up with:

<VirtualHost *>
ServerName sub1.somedomain.com
ProxyPreserveHost On
ProxyRequests Off
<Proxy *>
Order deny,allow
Allow from all
</Proxy>
ProxyPass / http://192.168.0.1:777/
ProxyPassReverse / http://192.168.0.1:777/
</VirtualHost>

For each subdomain I configured a VirtualHost like this. Thanks!

 

performace on reverse proxy.

So glad to have found this post. I was having a terrible time trying to get this working until I saw this post and added the line

Code:

ProxyPreserveHost On

to my virtual host config. Now the site rockets where it had been painfully slow and CSS was missing.

This forum rocks!