: Serve most of a domain with Apache, but use mod_proxy to serve some URLs from Lighttpd So we wish to host some pages on a new server with apache2, and embed some of our old content &

@Cugini213

You're probably best doing this using a setup of 3 VirtualHost declarations.

The first, becomes a default catch-all for any name that has not been specified, and you could have an index.php in the /var/www/default/ that either returns a blank page or an HTTP 404 response etc:

<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin webmaster@example.com
ServerName hostname.example.com
DocumentRoot /var/www/default
DirectoryIndex index.php index.html index.htm
ErrorLog /var/log/httpd/default/error_log
TransferLog /var/log/httpd/default/access_log
</VirtualHost>


The second, becomes your main new website using the domain example.com:
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin webmaster@example.com
ServerName example.com DocumentRoot /var/www/default
DirectoryIndex index.php index.html index.htm
ErrorLog /var/log/httpd/newsite/error_log
TransferLog /var/log/httpd/newsite/access_log
</VirtualHost>


The third, works as a proxy to your old website using the subdomain oldsite.example.com:

<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin webmaster@example.com
ServerName oldsite.example.com
ProxyPreserveHost On
ProxyPass / 192.168.111.2/ ProxyPassReverse / 192.168.111.2/ ErrorLog /var/log/httpd/oldsite/error_log
TransferLog /var/log/httpd/oldsite/access_log
</VirtualHost>

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@Megan663

You can use mod_rewrite to set rules about which URLs should be served via reverse proxy. There is documentation about it on the Apache website: httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/rewrite/proxy.html

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