apache 2.2.25: error in ProxyPass URL parsing with interpolation

Jason Guild <jason.guild@xxxxxxxxxx> · Fri, 26 Jul 2013 11:52:08 -0800

Hi there:

I have a virtual host which acts as a reverse proxy to an application 
running on a different server. The reverse proxy must preserve the
protocol used by the incoming request (HTTP or HTTPS) when making the
proxied request.

This was accomplished easily in httpd 2.2.21 with the following statements:

     ProxyPassInterpolateEnv On
     RewriteEngine On

     RewriteCond %{HTTPS} =off
     RewriteRule . - [E=protocol:http]
     RewriteCond %{HTTPS} =on
     RewriteRule . - [E=protocol:https]

     ProxyPass /my_app/ ${protocol}://1.2.3.4/my_app/ interpolate
     ProxyPassReverse /my_app/ ${protocol}://1.2.3.4/my_app/ interpolate

When I upgraded to httpd 2.2.25, the server now chokes on parsing the 
URLs of the ProxyPass and ProxyPassReverse statements above.
Removing the ${protocol} from those URLs allows the server to start.

Is there another or better way to accomplish this setup?
Perhaps this is a regression in mod_proxy?

My setup is:
Windows 7 x64
Apache httpd 2.2.25 win32 x86

Any help or recommendations you can provide is appreciated.

Thanks,
Jason