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title: "Apache Proxy"
description: "Configure Apache to work with Home Assistant as a subdomain"
date: 2016-06-20 13:05
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---
This example demonstrates how you can configure Apache to act as a proxy for Home Assistant.
This is useful if you want to have:
* a subdomain redirecting to your Home Assistant instance
* several subdomain for several instance
* HTTPS redirection
#### {% linkable_title Subdomain %}
So you already have a working Apache server available at example.org. Your Home Assistant is correctly working on this web server and available at http://localhost:8123
Enable [`mod_proxy_wstunnel`](https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/mod/mod_proxy_wstunnel.html) by running if you encounter issues while serving Home Assistant through your proxy:
```bash
$ sudo a2enmod proxy_wstunnel
```
To be able to access to your Home Assistant instance by using https://home.example.org, add to following file to `/etc/httpd/conf/extra/` as `hass.conf`
```text
<VirtualHost *:443>
ServerName home.example.org
ProxyPreserveHost On
ProxyRequests off
ProxyPass / http://localhost:8123/
ProxyPassReverse / http://localhost:8123/
ProxyPass /api/websocket ws://localhost:8123/api/websocket
ProxyPassReverse /api/websocket ws://localhost:8123/api/websocket
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP:Upgrade} =websocket [NC]
RewriteRule /(.*) ws://localhost:8123/$1 [P,L]
RewriteCond %{HTTP:Upgrade} !=websocket [NC]
RewriteRule /(.*) http://localhost:8123/$1 [P,L]
</VirtualHost>
```
and make sure that this file is read by Apache's main configuration file `/etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf`
```text
...
Include conf/extra/hass.conf
...
```
If you don't want HTTPS, you can change `<VirtualHost *:443>` to `<VirtualHost *:80>` or better consider redirecting all HTTP to HTTPS.
<p class='note'>
In case you are getting occasional HTTP 504 error messages ("Gateway Timeout") or HTTP 502 messages ("Bad Gateway") when accessing the Web UI through your proxy, try adding disablereuse=on to both ProxyPass directives:
</p>
```text
<VirtualHost *:443>
[...]
ProxyPass /api/websocket ws://localhost:8123/api/websocket disablereuse=on
[...]
ProxyPass / http://localhost:8123/ disablereuse=on
[...]
</VirtualHost>
```
#### {% linkable_title Multiple Instance %}
You already have Home Assistant running on http://localhost:8123 and available at home.example.org as describe before. The configuration file for this Home Assistant is available in `/home/alice/.homeassistant/configuration.yaml`
You want another instance available at https://countryside.example.org
You can either :
* Create a new user, `bob`, to hold the configuration file in `/home/bob/.homeassistant/configuration.yaml` and run Home Assistant as this new user
* Create another configuration directory in `/home/alice/.homeassistan2/configuration.yaml` and run Home Assistant using `hass --config /home/alice/.homeassistant2/`
In both solution, change port number used by modifying `configuration.yaml`
```yaml
http:
server_port: 8124
...
```
Start Home Assistant: Now, you have another instance running on http://localhost:8124
To access this instance by using https://countryside.example.org add to `/etc/httpd/conf/extra/hass.conf`
```text
<VirtualHost *:443>
ProxyPreserveHost On
ProxyRequests Off
ServerName countryside.example.org
ProxyPass /api/websocket ws://localhost:8123/api/websocket
ProxyPassReverse /api/websocket ws://localhost:8123/api/websocket
ProxyPass / http://localhost:8124/
ProxyPassReverse / http://localhost:8124/
</VirtualHost>
```
#### {% linkable_title HTTP to HTTPS redirection %}
Add to your `/etc/httpd/conf/extra/hass.conf`
```text
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName example.org
ServerSignature Off
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} !=on
RewriteRule .* https://%{SERVER_NAME}%{REQUEST_URI} [NE,R,L]
</VirtualHost>
```