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Using XBMC Video Server through a reverse proxy
NOTE! This is not the same as configuring a reverse proxy for XBMC itself, this is about accessing XBMC Video Server through a separate web server.
Reverse proxying is the process of making your application available from another web server, like in the following example:
http://example.com/media is a proxy for http://internal.example.com/xbmc-video-server/src
This guide is only for the Apache web server. If you want to do the proxying with Nginx you're on your own.
You'll need to have proxy_http and proxy_html addons in Apache:
If you are using the Debian packaging system (Debian and Ubuntu derivatives do) you can run the following commands:
sudo apt-get install libapache2-mod-proxy-html
sudo a2enmod proxy_http proxy_html
If you have MacPorts or Brew you can use your those to install mod_proxy_html and follow up with the same a2enmod command as above.
If you do not have MacPorts or Brew you can do it manually.
Download mod_proxy_html from here.
Unpackage then run the files then do the following commands:
sudo apxs -ci -I /usr/include/libxml2 mod_xml2enc.c
sudo apxs -ci -I /usr/include/libxml2 -I . mod_proxy_html.c
Update the httpd.conf file (commonly located at /etc/apache2/)
LoadFile /usr/lib/libxml2.dylib
LoadModule proxy_html_module libexec/apache2/mod_proxy_html.so
LoadModule xml2enc_module libexec/apache2/mod_xml2enc.so
Here's an example configuration site configuration file for Apache. It has only been tested on Apache 2.2 (Debian Wheezy) and may need some modifications for Apache 2.4. In this example, http://xbmc-video-server.example.com/media is a proxy for http://localhost/xbmc-video-server/src.
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName xbmc-video-server.example.com
# do the actual proxying
ProxyPass /media http://localhost/xbmc-video-server/src
ProxyPassReverse /media http://localhost/xbmc-video-server/src
# decompress so we can modify the contents
SetOutputFilter INFLATE;proxy-html;DEFLATE
# you may need to uncomment this line with Apache 2.4
#ProxyHTMLEnable On
# make sure Apache doesn't try to "fix" the DOCTYPE
ProxyHTMLDocType "<!DOCTYPE html>"
# these directives need to be duplicated since we're in a
# different scope. We actually only want to add "img data-src"
ProxyHTMLLinks a href
ProxyHTMLLinks area href
ProxyHTMLLinks link href
ProxyHTMLLinks img src longdesc usemap data-src
ProxyHTMLLinks object classid codebase data usemap
ProxyHTMLLinks q cite
ProxyHTMLLinks blockquote cite
ProxyHTMLLinks ins cite
ProxyHTMLLinks del cite
ProxyHTMLLinks form action
ProxyHTMLLinks input src usemap
ProxyHTMLLinks head profile
ProxyHTMLLinks base href
ProxyHTMLLinks script src for
# finally, rewrite URLs
ProxyHTMLURLMap /xbmc-video-server/src/ /media/
</VirtualHost>