RewriteEngine On ServerName yourservername ServerAlias alias.domain.com Redirect permanent / https://alias.domain.com/transmission RewriteRule /transmission[/]?$ /transmission/web [R=permanent] SSLEngine on SSLCertificateFile /etc/ssl/certs/ssl-cert-file.pem SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/ssl/private/ssl-cert-key-file.key ProxyRequests off ProxyPreserveHost off Order deny,allow Allow from all ProxyPass /transmission http://127.0.0.1:8080/transmission ProxyPassReverse /transmission http://127.0.0.1:8080/transmission ServerName yourservername ServerAlias alias.domain.com Redirect permanent / https://alias.domain.com #If you use iptables , you can close the port 8080. Anyway the apache will prox it