My company has implemented a reverse proxy to allow access to company apps over the Internet, and our reverse proxy requires that each internal application be mapped to a virtual directory on the reverse proxy host (e.g. http://our.rpdomainname.com/ <http://our.rpdomainname.com/app1> app1, http://our.rpdomainname.com/ <http://our.rpdomainname.com/app2> app2 ...). The problem is we have applications that generate web pages containing URLs relative to the root: My page: ... <a href="/cgi-bin/dosomething.exe?parm1=..."> ... These applications fail when served by the reverse proxy because, to the browser, the URL is relative to the root of the reverse proxy host, not the REAL application host. The reverse proxy returns a 404 because there is no virtual directory/application named "cgi-bin", and our administrator won't let us define one to point to cgi-bin on our app server, because it's a common name2. Unfortunately, these are older applications that we purchased from a third party that no longer supports, so we can't change the application to use a more flexible relative URL. I proposed implementing virtual hosts on our reverse proxy, so that applications that require they "own" the host's namespace will work without requiring modification. So, we might give "app1" its own virtual host name and the URL from the hyperlink above would map to: http://app1.our.rpdomainname.com/cgi-bin/dosomething.exe?parm1=... Our reverse proxy administrator says this is unconventional to do virtual hosting on a reverse proxy and refuses to consider it further. Our reverse proxy admin has also had to re-implement our reverse proxy twice now because of stability issues and other limitations, so I'm skeptical about what they tell me. I am a software developer and am not as familiar with this technology, so I'm asking the community here if what I'm requesting is crazy or impractical, or if this is indeed a common solution to this type of problem. Thanks in advance. James
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