Hi Ray, I added two lines to the following file: /etc/apache2/sites-available/000-default.conf it now looks like this: <VirtualHost *:80> # The ServerName directive sets the request scheme, hostname and port that # the server uses to identify itself. This is used when creating # redirection URLs. In the context of virtual hosts, the ServerName # specifies what hostname must appear in the request's Host: header to # match this virtual host. For the default virtual host (this file) this # value is not decisive as it is used as a last resort host regardless. # However, you must set it for any further virtual host explicitly. #ServerName www.example.com ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost DocumentRoot /var/www/html # Available loglevels: trace8, ..., trace1, debug, info, notice, warn, # error, crit, alert, emerg. # It is also possible to configure the loglevel for particular # modules, e.g. #LogLevel info ssl:warn ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined # For most configuration files from conf-available/, which are # enabled or disabled at a global level, it is possible to # include a line for only one particular virtual host. For example the # following line enables the CGI configuration for this host only # after it has been globally disabled with "a2disconf". #Include conf-available/serve-cgi-bin.conf RewriteEngine on RewriteRule ^(.*) http://localhost:8080$1 [P] </VirtualHost> # vim: syntax=apache ts=4 sw=4 sts=4 sr noet but it does not have any effect. Here the error.log but there is no error: [Fri Sep 02 15:28:21.677881 2016] [mpm_event:notice] [pid 6627:tid 140049034254208] AH00493: SIGUSR1 received. Doing graceful restart [Fri Sep 02 15:28:21.688069 2016] [proxy_html:notice] [pid 6627:tid 140049034254208] AH01425: I18n support in mod_proxy_html requires mod_xml2enc. Without it, non-ASCII characters in proxied pages are likely to display incorrectly. [Fri Sep 02 15:28:21.689351 2016] [mpm_event:notice] [pid 6627:tid 140049034254208] AH00489: Apache/2.4.18 (Ubuntu) OpenSSL/1.0.2g-fips configured -- resuming normal operations [Fri Sep 02 15:28:21.689355 2016] [core:notice] [pid 6627:tid 140049034254208] AH00094: Command line: '/usr/sbin/apache2' Cheers Jochen