Use a .htaccess file as a url redirect proxy to ip

[Markus]

Hi guys,

I run Jira-Software on a dedicated server in a docker container. I dont want my users to use the IP address of this server to access jira. Instead I want them to use a subdomain lets call it jira.abc.com But for that I have to forward the subdomain to the server IP. For that I us an .htaccess file with the proxy flag, which works perfectly.
So a user types in the browser https://www.jira.abc.com and the .htaccess proxy forwards the user to the IP, while in the browser the url is still displayed. Everything fine so far.

--- .htaccess ---

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule (.*)$ http://SERVER_IP:9990/$1 [P]

---

For some reason jira is very slow, but besides of that everything seems to work fine.
One problem I have is that jira logs this exception, which so far I now means something like it cannot reach itself over the url.

HealthCheck:thread-3 ERROR      [c.a.t.j.healthcheck.support.GadgetFeedUrlHealthCheck] An error occurred when performing the Gadget feed URL healthcheck
java.net.SocketTimeoutException: Read timed out

In the /opt/atlassian/jira/server.xml I edited the Connector and added the following:
- proxyName="www.jira.abc.com"
- proxyPort="443"
- scheme="https"

The questions I have are the following:
- Can I use a .htaccess file as proxy?
- Could the exception above be the reason why jira is so slow?

[Gonchik Tsymzhitov · Accepted solution]

Hi! 

in that case, please, use mod_proxy module

https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/mod/mod_proxy.html

That article will help you

https://confluence.atlassian.com/kb/proxying-atlassian-server-applications-with-apache-http-server-mod_proxy_http-806032611.html

Cheers,

Gonchik Tsymzhitov

[Amit Verma]

I have written a short tutorial for people who want to learn the basics of Apache URL rewriting. You can read the tutorial to improve your URL rewriting skills.

https://amitoverflow.com/2021/04/15/htaccess-tutorial-for-beginers/