Running Assets Server in combination with Apache

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For production environments it is highly advised to run Assets Server on a dedicated machine. For demo machines or small setups, Assets Server may have to be installed on an existing machine that is already running an Apache Web server. To prevent having to access Assets Server with an additional port number you can set up a "reverse proxy" configuration in Apache to forward requests to the Assets Server.

Step 1. Access the following file of Assets Server:

<Assets Server location>/Config/node-config.properties.txt

Step 2. Add the following setting:

serverPath=/elvis

Step 3. Add a proxy config to Apache.

    <IfModule proxy_module>

           ProxyRequests Off

           <Proxy *>
                   Order deny,allow
                   Allow from all
           </Proxy>

           ProxyPreserveHost On
           ProxyPass /elvis http://localhost:8080/elvis
           ProxyPassReverse /elvis http://localhost:8080/elvis

    </IfModule>