Question

I have a web site that I administer that uses Apache 2.0 on the front with Tomcat 6 on the back-end (with mod_proxy proxying the connection between the two).

I want to be able to use the same VirtualHost to also access the phpMyAdmin application running on the box. So, for example, http://www.mywebsite.com will pass all traffic to Tomcat, but http://www.mywebsite.com/myadmin (with obvious security) will pass traffic to phpMyAdmin.

Answer 1

How about using mod_rewrite instead of mod_proxy?

You can use the P modifier to send certain request (i.e. all those that aren’t to /phpmyadmin*) through a proxy. This actually uses mod_proxy internally.

Something like this (not tested):

 RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/phpmyadmin  RewriteRule ^.*$ http://tomcat/$0 [P,L]