Hi Folks,
Simple question,
I was reading the documentation for mod_proxy module in version 2.2 on the
apache.org website and I was a little confused by the difference between
forward and reverse proxies.
My understanding:
Forward returns the addresses and reverse (default) returns the content. Is
this true ?
Regards,
Arjun
-----Original Message-----
From: jslive@xxxxxxxxx [mailto:jslive@xxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Joshua
Slive
Sent: Thursday, September 07, 2006 9:36 AM
To: users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [users@httpd] Dynamic RewriteRule based on the URL
On 9/7/06, Norman Khine <norman@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> [1] <VirtualHost *:80>
>
> [2] ServerName domain.tld
> [3] RewriteEngine on
> [4] RewriteCond %{*HTTP_HOST*} *[^.]+*\.domain\.tld$
> [5] RewriteRule ^(.+) %{HTTP_HOST}$1
[C]
> [6] RewriteRule *([^.]+)*\.domain\.tld(.*)
http://localhost:9080/*$1*$2 [P]
>
> [7] RequestHeader set X-Base-Path %{*HTTP_HOST*}
>
> [8] ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/all-error_log
> [9] CustomLog /var/log/apache2/all-access_log common
>
> [0] </VirtualHost>
>
>
> I don't understand line [2], as the server gets the request
http://folder.domain.tld as this points to an A record IP address Apache
will return the default page and it stops, how do I inject the
%{*HTTP_HOST*} value or is there some magic I am missing and don't see?
>
> Assuming that there is, Apache then switches the RewriteEngine on [3] and
takes everything before domain.tld - what is the meaning of [^.]+ ? then the
[C] means continue to the next RewriteRule which in my case needs to rewrite
to an internal server and Proxy this i.e. [P], but this does not work for me
either ;'(
>
> Line [7] I need to set the X-Base-Path to the folder name.
>
> I would like to avoid using vhost.map or any scripting but I am open to
suggestions if there is no other way ;)
>
> By the way, I don't have the www.'folder'.domain.tld in my URL - maybe
this is the problem, but don't see why?
I don't understand that last line. But here is something that should be
closer:
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName domain.tld
ServerAlias *.domain.tld
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^([a-zA-Z_]+\.domain\.tld)$
RewriteRule (.+) http://localhost:9080/%1$1 [P,E=THEHOST:%1]
RequestHeader set X-Base-Path %{THEHOST}e
ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/all-error_log
CustomLog /var/log/apache2/all-access_log common
</VirtualHost>
I don't know if this will work, but it is closer than what you have.
A few notes:
1. My regex matching the HOST is more strict to avoid clients playing
funny games with their host header and causing security problems. It
accepts only hostnames containing letters and the underscore
character.
2. In the RewriteRule %1 matches the regex from the RewriteCond and $1
matches the regex from the RewriteRule.
3. The funky stuff with THEHOST is necessary because the RequestHeader
directive cannot access mod_rewrite variables. So I instead have
mod_rewrite shove HTTP_HOST in an environment variable.
One more note: I'm not actually sure whether RequestHeader can use env
variables at all. You'd need to check the code to be sure.
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
---------------------------------------------------------------------
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
|