I appreaciate the responses; though I'm still having problems. I believe I have a workaround -- by changing the order of the URL from "/product/service/" to "/service/product" and implementing the wildcard logic on the tomcat side, I believe I can achive the same effect. I still don't understand why the former approach doesn't work. Can someone explain why the first <Location> tag will proxy the request to tomcat, but the latter <Location> tag will ignore the ProxyPass directive and try to serve up the file from apache? > <Location "/product1/services/"> > Order Allow,Deny > Allow from all > ProxyPass http://poduct1-tomcat:8080/web-app/services/ > ProxyPassReverse / > </Location> > <Location ~ "/product1/services/"> > Order Allow,Deny > Allow from all > ProxyPass http://poduct1-tomcat:8080/web-app/services/ > ProxyPassReverse / > </Location> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Steven Wagner" <swagner@xxxxxxxx> To: <users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Thursday, February 16, 2006 9:48 AM Subject: Re: [users@httpd] wildcard in proxypass logic > Hello Oliver, > > Thanks for the reply. If I try to define an expression (either LocationMatch > or using ~ in Location), rather than the 403 Forbidden error I get a 404 Not > Found error. It's as if the ProxyPass directive is lost and Apache tries to > process the request locally. > > <LocationMatch "/*/services/"> > Order Allow,Deny > Allow from all > ProxyPass http://default-tomcat:8080/web-app/services/ > ProxyPassReverse / > </LocationMatch> > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <Oliver.Schaudt@xxxxxxxxx> > To: <users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Sent: Thursday, February 16, 2006 2:13 AM > Subject: AW: [users@httpd] wildcard in proxypass logic > > > For the wildcard use better "LocationMatch" instead of "Location". > http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/en/mod/core.html#locationmatch > > If you want to playing with a bunch of tomcats in the back you should have a > look of mod_proxy_balancer/mod_proxy_ajp too > http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/en/mod/mod_proxy_balancer.html > > > Bye > Oliver > > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > Von: Steven Wagner [mailto:swagner@xxxxxxxx] > Gesendet: Do 16.02.2006 00:43 > An: users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Betreff: [users@httpd] wildcard in proxypass logic > > Hello, I'm new to this list and apologize if my protocol is incorrect. I'm > trying to set up proxy using wildcards. The apache is being used as a front > end security layer to a pool of tomcat servers. The idea is to provide a > means to route different product server requests to different tomcat servers > pools, where the more popular products would have bigger pools. But since > there could potentially be a large number of product (most of which would > not be that popular), we wanted to have a default tomcat pool, hence the use > of the wildcard. So with the following httpd.conf settings requests for > product1/services and product2/services are proxied correctly, but requests > for product3/services return a 403 Forbidden error, where as I would have > thought it would be handled by the wild card entry. Any insight to the > problem or alternative solutions are appreciated. Thanks. > > <Location /product1/services/> > Order Allow,Deny > Allow from all > ProxyPass http://poduct1-tomcat:8080/web-app/services/ > ProxyPassReverse / > </Location> > > <Location /product2/services/> > Order Allow,Deny > Allow from all > ProxyPass http://poduct2-tomcat:8080/web-app/services/ > ProxyPassReverse / > </Location><Location /*/services/> > Order Allow,Deny > Allow from all > ProxyPass http://default-tomcat:8080/web-app/services/ > ProxyPassReverse / > </Location> > > > > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- > ---- > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > 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 > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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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