I've managed to reach internal localhost:8100 (where ionic server lives) from an external device accessing to 192.168.1.130/ionic with a proxypass. My http-vhosts.conf:
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin localhost@admin
DocumentRoot "/Volumes/DATA/03-www"
ServerName localhost
<Directory "/Volumes/DATA/03-www">
AllowOverride All
Require all granted
</Directory>
ProxyPreserveHost On
ProxyPass /ionic http://localhost:8100
ProxyPassReverse /ionic http://localhost:8100
</VirtualHost>
The problem here is that only the first request (index.html) is made to the ionic server. Next requests comming from this index.html are made to the apache, as the path is not including /ionic at the beginning:
::1 - - [26/May/2015:21:00:31 +0200] "GET /ionic HTTP/1.1" 200 3097
::1 - - [26/May/2015:21:00:31 +0200] "GET /lib/ionic/css/ionic.css HTTP/1.1" 404 1265
::1 - - [26/May/2015:21:00:31 +0200] "GET /css/style.css HTTP/1.1" 404 1265
::1 - - [26/May/2015:21:00:31 +0200] "GET /fonts/font-awesome/css/font-awesome.min.css HTTP/1.1" 404 1265
Is there a way to force all requests that where originated from specific path (that matches proxypass) to go via proxy, without having to modify index.html?
Do you have a specific reason to do like this ? Because if not and you only needs to check your app on a device there are few other alternatives.
You can install this in your device (ex: IPhone) and as long as your phone and development machine (the one running ionic server) in the same network, you could connect (with out a cable)
2 - Ionic View
When you want to leverage the full native functionality, you could publish your app to ionic platform and download in an install it to Ionic View
3 - Ripple Emulator
A chrome extension that will allow test you app in the browser. it supports functionalists such as GeoLocation
HTH