configuring reverse proxy to variable amount of backends (Apache Users)

Hi list,

I have been wrestling on and off with this problem for multiple years. I had some time to spare

today, so I looked into it once again, but can seem to make any progress.

Basically I want to accomplish the following: on a webpage (connected to the public internet, but behind a login page)

I offer a list of devices that are on an internal network. The model and brand of these devices vary.

I need to create a link for each device, so that apache proxies requests for those devices.

Currently I use the following path: /dev/x.x.x.x/ and the following proxy configuration:

Order deny,allow

Allow from all

</Proxy>

# put /dev/ in front of every redirect you get from every host

ProxyPassReverse /dev/ http://

RewriteEngine on

#RewriteLog /var/log/httpd/rewrite.log

#RewriteLogLevel 8

RewriteEngine on

RewriteRule ^dev/([0-9.]*)/(.*) http://$1/$2 [P]

</Directory>

I created this config several years ago, but it is seriously lacking. html/_javascript_ links are not

replaced, and absolute paths returned by the device make the browser lose track.

Using proxy_html, and can fix the inline links, but the fact that the backend hostname

is not fixed, but dynamic makes things complicated.

ProxyRequests off

ProxyPassReverse /

ProxyHTMLEnable On

ProxyHTMLURLMap / /app1/

RequestHeader unset Accept-Encoding

</Location>

But I do not know how to map this to a backend with a variable address. For example

I might be able to use LocationMatch, but how do I reference the matched ipaddress

in the Location Directive in the ProxyHTMLURLMap?

Good anyone give me some ideas how to approach this?

Thanks very much,

Ron Arts