Re: Reverse proxy to Websphere

[Yehuda Katz <yehuda@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 12:04 PM, Jorge Andres Osorio <jvoorhees1@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi people:

I'm having issues with and old Apache 2.0.52 running as a reverse
proxy to a Websphere server. The description of the problem is exactly
the same that someone has with Apache 2.2.x in this URL:

http://www.tek-tips.com/viewthread.cfm?qid=1577780

Before just trying to upgrade my production reverse proxy server from
the current to the latest Apache version, I would like to know if
there's any kind of problem similar to these that maybe has been
addressed with some specific settings or something like that.

First, you should definitely upgrade. At least to 2.2.22 and maybe even to 2.4.1.

Apache 2.0.52 is very old (more that 7 years old) and has security issues.

Which proxy module are you using?

The link you sent mentions mod_proxy_html (which is what is causing the problem), but you should be able to use mod_proxy_http by itself.

Since you did not provide any information about your current settings, I can just point you to this article which has full configuration instructions for using Apache as a proxy to Websphere: http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/wsmashin/v1r0/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.websphere.sMash.doc/core/zero.core/docs/en/ProxyConfiguration.html