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Posted to users@httpd.apache.org by Ron Arts <ro...@neonova.nl> on 2006/05/07 00:42:18 UTC
[users@httpd] reverse proxying to dynamically determined hosts
Hi,
I am trying to accomplish the following:
translate
http://<myhost>/device/<anotherhost>/pathinfo
to a reverse proxy request to
http://<anotherhost>/pathinfo
ProxyPass and ProxyReversePass are no good obviously,
so I am experimenting with mod_rewrite. But this:
<Directory /usr/local/prod/web/html>
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^dev/([0-9.]*)/(.*) http://$1/$2 [P]
</Directory>
does not work. In fact I can't even get
RewriteRule ^dev/192.168.170.212/(.*) http://192.168.170.212/$1 [P]
to work, because it redirects instead of proxies...
How would redirects from the remote host be handled in this case?
Thanks for any insights.
Ron
Re: [users@httpd] reverse proxying to dynamically determined hosts
Posted by Krist van Besien <kr...@gmail.com>.
On 5/7/06, Ron Arts <ro...@neonova.nl> wrote:
> thanks for the tip. I did that and it showed that the proxying worked,
> but the remote server threw me a redirect, and my browser followed that
> and ended up bypassing the reverse proxy!
Another tip: Get Firefox (if you haven't got it allready) and the
HTTPHeaders plugin. That way you can see everything that gets passed
between your browser and the server. Great for catching problems
caused by unexpected redirects.
Krist
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Re: [users@httpd] reverse proxying to dynamically determined hosts
Posted by Ron Arts <ro...@neonova.nl>.
Krist van Besien wrote:
> On 5/7/06, Ron Arts <ro...@neonova.nl> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am trying to accomplish the following:
>>
>> translate
>>
>> http://<myhost>/device/<anotherhost>/pathinfo
>>
>> to a reverse proxy request to
>>
>> http://<anotherhost>/pathinfo
>>
>> ProxyPass and ProxyReversePass are no good obviously,
>> so I am experimenting with mod_rewrite. But this:
>>
>> <Directory /usr/local/prod/web/html>
>> RewriteEngine on
>> RewriteRule ^dev/([0-9.]*)/(.*) http://$1/$2 [P]
>> </Directory>
>>
>>
>> does not work. In fact I can't even get
>>
>> RewriteRule ^dev/192.168.170.212/(.*) http://192.168.170.212/$1 [P]
>>
>> to work, because it redirects instead of proxies...
>> How would redirects from the remote host be handled in this case?
>
> You have a [P] at the end. So it is supposed to proxy, and not to
> redirect. If your server however does redirect than there might be
> something else in your config doing that.
>
> Have you tried running with a rewrite log?
>
Krist,
thanks for the tip. I did that and it showed that the proxying worked,
but the remote server threw me a redirect, and my browser followed that
and ended up bypassing the reverse proxy!
So now I do it like this:
ProxyPassReverse /dev/ http://
<Directory /usr/local/prod/web/html>
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^dev/([0-9.]*)/(.*) http://$1/$2 [P]
</Directory>
And amazingly enough this totally works!
Boy do I love the Apache developers ;-)
Thanks,
Ron
> Krist
>
>
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Re: [users@httpd] reverse proxying to dynamically determined hosts
Posted by Krist van Besien <kr...@gmail.com>.
On 5/7/06, Ron Arts <ro...@neonova.nl> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am trying to accomplish the following:
>
> translate
>
> http://<myhost>/device/<anotherhost>/pathinfo
>
> to a reverse proxy request to
>
> http://<anotherhost>/pathinfo
>
> ProxyPass and ProxyReversePass are no good obviously,
> so I am experimenting with mod_rewrite. But this:
>
> <Directory /usr/local/prod/web/html>
> RewriteEngine on
> RewriteRule ^dev/([0-9.]*)/(.*) http://$1/$2 [P]
> </Directory>
>
>
> does not work. In fact I can't even get
>
> RewriteRule ^dev/192.168.170.212/(.*) http://192.168.170.212/$1 [P]
>
> to work, because it redirects instead of proxies...
> How would redirects from the remote host be handled in this case?
You have a [P] at the end. So it is supposed to proxy, and not to
redirect. If your server however does redirect than there might be
something else in your config doing that.
Have you tried running with a rewrite log?
Krist
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