Re: ProxyPass question

[Tom Mornini <tm...@infomania.com>]

On Tue, 15 Feb 2000, Eugene Miretskiy wrote:

> I have a site which is completelly dynamic (everything mod_perl)
> I want to use mod_proxy+mod_perl setup so that mod_proxy serves all
> the images and proxies dynamic content to  mod_perl server.  
> Furthermore, all images reside in /pics directory (i.e.
> http://the.site.com/pics/logo.gif),
> and I _really_ do not want to change this.
> 
> Here is a problem I ran into:
> I have the following lines in httpd.conf file to proxy dynamic content to
> mod_perl
>     ProxyPass        / http://my_backend_server/
>     ProxyPassReverse / http://my_backend_server/
> 
> I cannot find a way to make mod_proxy server handle pics.  I tried

Rewrite to the rescue!

RewriteLogLevel 1
RewriteLog "| /usr/local/apache_proxy/bin/rotatelogs /usr/local/apache-common/logs/r_log 86400"

<VirtualHost 0.0.0.0>

 RewriteEngine on
 RewriteOptions inherit
 RewriteRule (^.+\.(mtpl|tmpl|mpl|cgi)$) http://your.backend.com$1 [P]

</VirtualHost>

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