Reverse proxy frontend

Requirements

• You need ssl for authentication.
• You run Apache 2.2 both in the backend and the frontend.
• You run RHEL 5.2 Application stack 2 in the backend (php 5.2.6 + mysql 5 + apache 2.2.10).
• You run Apache 2.2 as the frontend in any modern OS using trainer.moodle.org as url (My frontend apache runs on Windows 2003).
• You installed moodle 1.9 to run from "/" the internal http server with SSL support on 10.1.1.24.
• You have an external facing apache using SSL.

Configuration for the external server

http.conf

(snip)
ProxyPass / http://10.1.1.24/
ProxyPassReverse / http://10.1.1.24/
(snip)
Include conf/http-ssl.conf

http-ssl.conf

(snip)
ProxyPass / http://10.1.1.24/
ProxyPassReverse / http://10.1.1.24/
(snip)

config.php

<?php  /// Moodle Configuration File 

unset($CFG);

$CFG->dbtype    = 'mysql';
$CFG->dbhost    = 'localhost';
$CFG->dbname    = 'moodle';
$CFG->dbuser    = 'moodleuser';
$CFG->dbpass    = 'XXXXXXXX';
$CFG->dbpersist =  false;
$CFG->prefix    = 'mdl_';

$CFG->wwwroot   = 'http://trainer.moodle.org';
$CFG->dirroot   = '/var/www/moodle';
$CFG->dataroot  = '/opt/moodle_data';
$CFG->admin     = 'admin';

$CFG->directorypermissions = 00777;  // try 02777 on a server in Safe Mode

require_once("$CFG->dirroot/lib/setup.php");
// MAKE SURE WHEN YOU EDIT THIS FILE THAT THERE ARE NO SPACES, BLANK LINES,
// RETURNS, OR ANYTHING ELSE AFTER THE TWO CHARACTERS ON THE NEXT LINE.
?>

The tricky part

• Go to Administration ► Security ► HTTP security and set Use HTTPS for loginsloginhttps to true.
• You need to have the previous setup ready or you may lock yourself out of the server.