On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 2:38 PM, Mark Wiltshire <mark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi everyone, > I need a little assistance setting up a Reverse Proxy on Apache 2.0.59 > Situation > -------------- > I have a server 172.16.0.141 which hosts our website. > This website sources Adverts from another server 172.16.2.150 > I want to set up a proxy server on 172.16.0.141 so that the original website > will link through to itself. to get these adverts. > i.e. when I call 172.16.0.141/adverts this will proxy through to > 172.16.2.150/adverts > The server 172.16.0.141 has an https certificate which we use for login > The server 172.16.2.150 does not have https certificate. > I have set up the following so far in my httpd.conf > ------------- > ProxyRequests off > ProxyPass /adverts/ http://172.16.0.141/adverts/ > <Location /adverts/> > ProxyPassReverse / > </Location> > ------------- > But when I hit 172.16.0.141/adverts/default.aspx I get the following error: > > Proxy Error > > The proxy server received an invalid response from an upstream server. > The proxy server could not handle the request GET /adverts/default.aspx. > > Reason: Max-Forwards has reached zero - proxy loop? > > What am I doing wrong ? Your ProxyPassReverse is gibberish. Replace with this: <Location /adverts/> ProxyPassReverse http://172.16.0.141/adverts/ </Location> Which is equivalent to the shorter version (no location block): ProxyPassReverse /adverts/ http://172.16.0.141/adverts/ > And how can I cater for https calls on the original web server, being routed > through to the un-secure web server without a warning to the end user? > Many thanks > Regards > Mark You'll need to elaborate on what you mean there. Cheers Tom --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx