Multiple Web Servers over a Single IP, Using Apache as a Reverse Proxy

As a developer, I don’t get to play with the IT side of things quite as much as I would like to.  So I enjoy the little things, like learning how to use a reverse proxy on Apache.  At home, I only have one IP coming in with my regular Internet connection, and I want the ability to run multiple servers inside my network on port 80. In the past, I’ve always just setup a new port and routed it to whichever server I wanted. 8080 here, 8081 there, etc. Well with Apache reverse proxy (mod_proxy), I found it was very easy to setup route requests to other internal servers.

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