# How to change virtual host

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**Created:** [February 19, 2020, 11:36pm UTC](https://discourse.openondemand.org/t/how-to-change-virtual-host/739 "2020-02-19T23:36:33Z")\
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**Post date:** [February 20, 2020, 4:27pm UTC](https://discourse.openondemand.org/t/how-to-change-virtual-host/739/2 "2020-02-20T16:27:24Z")

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I have similar instructions here. Please make backups! That said, in 1.7 you’ll be able to specify the template you’re using so it’s less dangerous. Let us know if you run into issues.

> [@How to add a proxy rule in the ood\_portal.yml file?](https://discourse.openondemand.org/t/how-to-add-a-proxy-rule-in-the-ood-portal-yml-file/488/2):
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> I don’t think you can by editing the confg yml. We just don’t allow for arbitrary redirect rules, though maybe we should? Most folks modify the resulting /opt/rh/httpd24/root/etc/httpd/conf.d/ood-portal.conf when they need to do something like this. But this comes at a price, those edits will not be preserved next time you reconfigure using the ood-portal-generator. So you’d have to add them back every time. So, if you really need to do this, I’d suggest hacking the template it’s created fro…

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