title: Wordpress Rest API reverse Proxy
body: <p>I am trying to setup reverse proxy with wordpress and exclude couple of paths. My exclude rules work for admin, includes, ..etc but it doesn't work for /wp-json/. I am suspecting it is because of the .htaccess. I need wordpress to return the rest api data because I use that in gatsbyjs. </p>
  
  <p>I have spent the whole day trying to figure this out. For some reason with my setup /wp-json/ returns 404 and it is proxied to the netlify server where the front-end part of my site lives. If I remove all the proxy rules wp-json works. </p>
  
  <p>.htaccess contains the default wordpress stuff. </p>
  
  <p>Here is a pastebin of my virtual host: 
  <a href="https://pastebin.com/vFh6hCkN" rel="noreferrer">https://pastebin.com/vFh6hCkN</a></p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;IfModule mod_ssl.c&gt;
     &lt;VirtualHost *:443&gt;
      # 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.
  
      Protocols h2 http/1.1
      ServerName  www.michaelharwinlaw.com
      ServerAlias michaelharwinlaw.com
      ServerAdmin webmaster@cyberserge.com
      DocumentRoot /var/www/html/
  
      &lt;Directory /var/www/html&gt;
              Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
              AllowOverride All
              Order allow,deny
              allow from all
      &lt;/Directory&gt;
  
      SSLProxyEngine on
      ProxyPass /wp-admin/ !
      ProxyPass /wp-login/ !
      ProxyPass /wp-json/ !
      ProxyPass /wp-content/plugins/ !
      ProxyPass /wp-includes/ !
      ProxyPassMatch .*\.xml !
      ProxyPass / https://stag.michaelharwinlaw.com/
      ProxyPassReverse / https://stag.michaelharwinlaw.com/
  
      # 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}/mc-error.log
      CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/mc-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
  
      Include /var/www/html/wp-content/uploads/wpseo-redirects/.redirects
  
      SSLCertificateFile /etc/letsencrypt/live/www.michaelharwinlaw.com/fullchain.pem
      SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/letsencrypt/live/www.michaelharwinlaw.com/privkey.pem
      Include /etc/letsencrypt/options-ssl-apache.conf
  &lt;/VirtualHost&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>.htaccess </p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;IfModule mod_rewrite.c&gt;
  RewriteEngine On
  RewriteBase /
  RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
  RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
  &lt;/IfModule&gt;
  # END WordPress
  </code></pre>