[JeremyTheNerd]

OK - I've been searching for this for a couple of days now and have came up empty handed. Here's an overview of my environment:

Webserver A: Hosts mydomain.net and runs on port 80, uses XAMPP
Webserver B: Raspberry Pi running Raspbian, hosts myotherdomain.net and runs on port 8080, uses nginx

My ISP is Mediacom (not really relevant but just so you know I have a residential ISP)

I have one external IP address.

I use freedns.afraid.org as my Dynamic DNS and I use GoDaddy for the domain names.

If I go to myotherdomain.net:8080 it works all find and dandy.
If I go to mydomain.net it works all fine and dandy.
If I go to myotherdomain.net it will send me to mydomain.net as that server is running on port 80.

What I want to do is make it so that I do not have to type the 8080 at the end of myotherdomain.net. I have tried doing a couple of the redirect methods I have found for nginx, however, it's not working.

My current train of thought: I think I need to do a redirect on Webserver A, since it's setup on port 80, so that when it sees myotherdomain.net it will automatically forward to myotherdomain.net:8080. And that's where my problem is - I have no idea how to do that, what it's called to do a better search for it, or really where to begin.

My first post here so be nice :-)

Thanks!

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Hi Jeremy

I'm not an expert on that area but you probably can accomplish that using Virtual Hosts and a redirect to the other server I guess!
Something to start Setting Up Virtual Hosts for XAMPP

[SleepyDude]

Hi Jeremy

I'm not an expert on that area but you probably can accomplish that using Virtual Hosts and a redirect to the other server I guess!
Something to start Setting Up Virtual Hosts for XAMPP

[JeremyTheNerd]

When doing virtual hosts it requires you to point to a directory, which would be on the other server. Would that work to put the other server's local directory there?

[SleepyDude]

When doing virtual hosts it requires you to point to a directory, which would be on the other server. Would that work to put the other server's local directory there?

I suppose you can do it, check the Apache documentation.

Another possibility point to a folder only with a webpage with auto redirect to the other server http://server2:8080

[JeremyTheNerd]

After a lot of failed attempts I decided to just do virtual hosts and run both sites off the same server. My goal was to use my Raspberry Pi as a low power web server but I'll just repurpose that

Thanks for the replies!