How to reverse proxy a dynamic port with Apache?

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I make a request to this URL: wss://domain/websockify?port=6801 The port parameter can change dynamically. How could I make ProxyPass to redirect to a dynamic port extracted from the URL?

This is the configuration that works with a predefined port:

ProxyPass /websockify ws://localhost:6801/websockify/
ProxyPassReverse /websockify ws://localhost:6801/websockify/

If I use ProxyPassMatch the apache tells me there is an error:

ProxyPassMatch ^/.*\?port=(.*)$ ws://localhost:$1/websockify/

#ProxyPass Unable to parse URL: ws://localhost:$1/websockify/

I use apache 2.4.10

robert · Accepted Answer · 2016-06-15 09:45:34Z

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This needs to be done with mod_rewrite.

Match the port from the query string. Redirect to the port that we matched in the condition with the [P] flag. Use the same match in the ProxyPassRevese.

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} port=(.*)
RewriteRule /websockify ws://localhost:%1/websockify/ [P]
ProxyPassReverse /websockify ws://localhost:%1/websockify/

answered Jun 15, 2016 at 9:45

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Dinesh Over a year ago

You can't have %1 in ProxyPassReverse nor in ProxyPass

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