Ok, I wasn't sure how to word the title but I'll try to explain my situation.
I have a home server running debian that, among other things, is running "plex media server".
I access my server remotely using a subdomain to a domain I own, lets call it "mydomain.com". I access my server on the subdomain "home.mydomain.com" (which at the moment just displays some basic html) and I access the "Plex web interface" on "home.mydomain.com:32400/web".
What I want to do is redirect the subdomain "plex.mydomain.com" to "home.mydomain.com:32400/web" for easier access to the "plex interface".
I've managed to get halfway there but I'm unsure on how to proceed, or if this is in fact possible to do.
These is my virtual hosts as of now:
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost
ServerName home.mydomain.com
DocumentRoot /var/www/home.mydomain.com/public_html
<Directory />
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride None
</Directory>
<Directory /var/www/>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
AllowOverride None
Order allow,deny
allow from all
</Directory>
ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /usr/lib/cgi-bin/
<Directory "/usr/lib/cgi-bin">
AllowOverride None
Options +ExecCGI -MultiViews +SymLinksIfOwnerMatch
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
# Possible values include: debug, info, notice, warn, error, crit,
# alert, emerg.
LogLevel warn
CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName plex.mydomain.com
ProxyRequests Off
ProxyPreserveHost On
ProxyPass / http://localhost:32400/
ProxyPassReverse / http://localhost:32400/
</VirtualHost>
Which allows me to access the plex interface at "plex.mydomain.com/web", but I still want to get rid of the "/web" part.
So to do that I tried:
ProxyPass / http://localhost:32400/web
ProxyPassReverse / http://localhost:32400/web
Which didn't work at all, that just gives my "404 Not Found".
So, can this be solved in the way I want? And if so, how do I do it.
Any help is much appreaciated.
Best Answer
You can get rid of the web context using a rewrite rule:
Note the rewrite conditions in the second section.
FYI, I got these settings from here: http://matt.coneybeare.me/how-to-map-plex-media-server-to-your-home-domain/
You should check that out for all the nitty gritty details. Of particular note would be setting up some basic authentication to protect your host.