Advanced Diaspora Apache reverse proxy

diaspora.conf

# Make sure to notice the comments at https://gist.github.com/jhass/719014#gistcomment-19774

<VirtualHost *:80>
  ServerName diaspora.example.org
  ServerAlias www.diaspora.example.org
  
  RedirectPermanent / https://diaspora.example.org/
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost *:443>
 ServerName diaspora.example.org
 ServerAlias www.diaspora.example.org
 
 DocumentRoot /home/diaspora/diaspora/public

 RewriteEngine On

 RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^diaspora\.example\.org [NC]
 RewriteRule ^/(.*)$ https://diaspora\.example\.org/$1 [L,R,QSA]

 # For Camo support
 #RewriteRule ^/camo/(.*)$ balancer://camo/$1 [P,QSA,L]
 
 RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/%{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
 RewriteRule ^/(.*)$ balancer://upstream%{REQUEST_URI} [P,QSA,L]

 <Proxy balancer://upstream>
  # Recommended, using a unix socket (Requires Apache >= 2.4)
  BalancerMember unix:///path/to/diaspora/tmp/diaspora.sock|http://
  # Alternatively let diaspora listen on a local port (Use this for Apache < 2.4)
  # BalancerMember http://localhost:3000
 </Proxy>

 # For Camo support
 #<Proxy balancer://camo>
 #  BalancerMember http://localhost:8081
 #</Proxy>

 ProxyRequests Off
 ProxyVia On  
 ProxyPreserveHost On
 RequestHeader set X_FORWARDED_PROTO https

 <Proxy *>
  # Apache < 2.4
  #Order allow,deny
  #Allow from all
  # Apache >= 2.4
  Require all granted
 </Proxy>

 <Directory /home/diaspora/diaspora/public>
  Options -MultiViews
  # Apache < 2.4
  #Allow from all
  #AllowOverride all
  # Apache >= 2.4
  Require all granted
 </Directory>

 SSLEngine On
 SSLCertificateFile /path/to/cert
 SSLCertificateKeyFile /path/to/private_key
 
 # For Let's encrypt it should point to /etc/letsencrypt/live/diaspora.example.org/chain.pem
 SSLCertificateChainFile /path/to/chain_file


 # Based on https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/Server_Side_TLS - consider as global configuration
SSLProtocol             all -SSLv3 -TLSv1 -TLSv1.1
SSLCipherSuite          ECDHE-ECDSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256:ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:ECDHE-ECDSA-CHACHA20-POLY1305:ECDHE-RSA-CHACHA20-POLY1305:DHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256:DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384
SSLHonorCipherOrder     off
SSLSessionTickets       off
</VirtualHost>

I have removed apache, Installed Nginx and followed the nginx proxy guide they provided and it worked for me.

Hi, I am in the process of installing diaspora and setting apache up. Is there any way of nstalling diaspora purely on localhost without any networking or hosting? I want to get a basic idea how it is to work with ROR before I go any further. Thanks.

@heatherita A development setup of diaspora does not need a reverse proxy setup, you just access http://localhost:3000 directly.