On 2/14/06, James W. Anderson <jwanderson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. The third-party module mod_proxy_html can solve problems like this. But I agree with you that virtual hosting on the proxy is the simplest and best technique. Joshua. --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
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