hello, we have on the same machine an apache2 in front (80) of a backend web server (8000) in a reverse proxy set up. the backend sees the proxied requests from the apache as coming from localhost. we are in a situation were we need the backend to see the request coming from anything but localhost. one approach might be to establish a unique host header on the backend, so the apache would forward requests like: RewriteRule ^/(.*) http://unique.host.com:8000/$1 [p,l] instead of RewriteRule ^/(.*) http://localhost:8000/$1 [p,l] i just wander if there are an easier / or even another solution to this? perhaps forwarding the original client ip somehow. thanks ./a --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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