configuring Apache on Mountain Lion proxying to Node.js

Question

I'm trying to get Apache on OSX 10.8.2 to proxy requests to a specific URL to a Node.js server running on port 8080 following this guide: http://garrows.com/?p=455
In order to do this, I add the following to apache2/users/george.conf:

ProxyRequests Off
ProxyPass /foo http://localhost:8080
ProxyPassReverse /foo http://localhost:8080

But with this added, apache wont start. In fact, as soon as I add even the 'ProxyRequests Off' directive, apache will no longer start. Is this the right place for this directive?

Answer 1

This works for me (I use port 3000 to connect to my own server here):

<Directory "/Users/psq/Sites/">
    Options Indexes MultiViews
    AllowOverride None
    Order allow,deny
    Allow from all

</Directory>

ProxyRequests Off
ProxyPass /foo http://localhost:3000
ProxyPassReverse /foo http://localhost:3000

But does not work if you place it inside <Directory>.

To debug, you can run:

sudo apachectl configtest

This will tell you where there is an error in your config.