[users@httpd] wildcard in proxypass logic

[Steven Wagner <sw...@scea.com>]

Hello, I'm new to this list and apologize if my protocol is incorrect. I'm trying to set up proxy using wildcards. The apache is being used as a front end security layer to a pool of tomcat servers. The idea is to provide a means to route different product server requests to different tomcat servers pools, where the more popular products would have bigger pools. But since there could potentially be a large number of product (most of which would not be that popular), we wanted to have a default tomcat pool, hence the use of the wildcard. So with the following httpd.conf settings requests for product1/services and product2/services are proxied correctly, but requests for product3/services return a 403 Forbidden error, where as I would have thought it would be handled by the wild card entry. Any insight to the problem or alternative solutions are appreciated. Thanks.

<Location /product1/services/>
Order Allow,Deny
Allow from all
ProxyPass                 http://poduct1-tomcat:8080/web-app/services/
ProxyPassReverse       /
</Location>

<Location /product2/services/>
Order Allow,Deny
Allow from all
ProxyPass                 http://poduct2-tomcat:8080/web-app/services/
ProxyPassReverse       /
</Location>

<Location /*/services/>
Order Allow,Deny
Allow from all
ProxyPass                 http://default-tomcat:8080/web-app/services/
ProxyPassReverse       /
</Location>