Ok I made a mistake in the initial question When someone goes to https://webserver it has to be redirected to http://webserver-internal/dealer/start You were right on https://login it has no subdirectory redirect and this works without the rewrite... I got the following 302 found error from the browser (with header display tool) HTTP/1.1 302 Found Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2005 10:43:25 GMT Server: Apache/1.3.26 (Unix) Location: http://webserver-internal/dealer/sso/login;DAX_SESSION_COOKIE=C7kFPYZikF3EPG3aKAHBhK2F8JTlnu3lZPk1pcX6A22NluGlzkFK!398064258!175689490!8000!7002 Set-Cookie: DAX_SESSION_COOKIE=C7kFPYZikF3EPG3aKAHBhK2F8JTlnu3lZPk1pcX6A22NluGlzkFK!398064258!175689490!8000!7002; path=/dealer Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Connection: close Transfer-Encoding: chunked So it goes to the right server but it ends at dealer/sso.... With the following rewrite rule in the virtual host webserver: <VirtualHost ip-address:443> ServerAdmin webmaster@webserver ServerName webserver ProxyPass / http://webserver-internal/ ProxyPassReverse / http://ip-address/ SSLEngine on SSLCertificateFile /etc/httpd/conf/ssl.crt/webserver.crt SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/httpd/conf/ssl.key/webserver.key ErrorLog logs/error_log_webserver TransferLog logs/access_log_webserver RewriteEngine On RewriteRule ^/$ https://webserver/dealer/start [R,L] </VirtualHost> -----Original Message----- From: Axel-Stéphane SMORGRAV [mailto:Axel-Stephane.SMORGRAV@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Friday, June 24, 2005 12:04 To: users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: RE: [users@httpd] apache 2.0 as reverse proxy using mod_rewrite OK Here is the deal: Your rewriterule is unnecessary. That's probably what caused the 302. What your rewriterule does is to send a redirect to https://webserver/ in response to a request for the root path https://webserver/ (or a redirect to https://login/ in response to a request for the root path https://login/). To me the ProxyPass and ProxyPassReverse directives are sufficient for what you want to achieve. RewriteRule take precedence on ProxyPass. Remove the RewriteRule and it will work. -ascs -----Original Message----- From: Heitmann, Herwarth [mailto:herwarth.heitmann@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Friday, June 24, 2005 10:01 AM To: users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: RE: [users@httpd] apache 2.0 as reverse proxy using mod_rewrite Hello, The configuration of virtual host https://login is the same: Listen ip-address:443 <VirtualHost ip-address:443> ServerAdmin webmaster@login ServerName webserver ProxyPass / http://login-internal/ ProxyPassReverse / http://login-internal/ SSLEngine on SSLCertificateFile /etc/httpd/conf/ssl.crt/webserver.crt SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/httpd/conf/ssl.key/webserver.key ErrorLog logs/error_log_webserver TransferLog logs/access_log_webserver RewriteEngine On RewriteRule ^/$ https://login/$1 [R,L] </VirtualHost> And this is working.... Webserver1 is indeed a typo. I thought $1 is the rest of the parameters. 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