My problem is, that I have server applications using http but running on port 9001 for example. As I have webapplications running on port 80 and port 443 I can't simply change the configuration of the server application to use those ports, so I want for example http://localhost/application
on port 80 internally connect to http://localhost:9001
as I don't want to forward port 9001 in my router.
When searching for a solution I found something about using a reverse proxy but didn't really understand it and don't know if this is the right solution.
Additionally it would be nice to map http://localhost:9001
to https://localhost
with automatic SSL-encryption with my own certificate, because the server application doesn't support SSL on it's own.
I'm running Ubuntu server 12.04 with apache2.
Thanks for your answers