From 537f455e10468b066f49668d03ff8f8698c44c98 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Shihaam Abdul Rahman <shihaam@shihaam.me>
Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2026 13:27:08 +0500
Subject: [PATCH] instruvtcion to route 8000 to 80 via apache

---
 README.md | 28 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 28 insertions(+)

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 95d9539..40334fb 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -72,6 +72,26 @@ journalctl -u jsonnutserver.service -f
 curl 'http://localhost:8000/jsonstatus?=nutdev1@localhost'
 ```
 
+## Serve through Apache (optional)
+
+To expose `/jsonstatus` on an existing Apache site, proxy it to the local server.
+Consider setting `LISTEN_HOST=127.0.0.1` (see above) so port 8000 is only
+reachable through Apache.
+
+```bash
+sudo a2enmod proxy proxy_http
+sudo tee /etc/apache2/conf-available/nut-json.conf > /dev/null <<'EOF'
+ProxyPass        /jsonstatus http://127.0.0.1:8000/jsonstatus
+ProxyPassReverse /jsonstatus http://127.0.0.1:8000/jsonstatus
+EOF
+sudo a2enconf nut-json
+sudo apachectl configtest && sudo systemctl restart apache2
+```
+
+```bash
+curl 'http://localhost/jsonstatus?=nutdev1@localhost'
+```
+
 ## Update
 
 ```bash
@@ -90,3 +110,11 @@ sudo rm /etc/systemd/system/jsonnutserver.service
 sudo systemctl daemon-reload
 sudo rm -r /opt/jsonnutserver
 ```
+
+If you set up the Apache proxy:
+
+```bash
+sudo a2disconf nut-json
+sudo rm /etc/apache2/conf-available/nut-json.conf
+sudo systemctl reload apache2
+```