Hi Nick, Answering your questions: 1. why 2.0.50?????? That is the recommended version of the current application we are using is running on :(. Thanks for pointing out the security aspect of it. Ok, I got the definition of reverse and forward wrong :) But still my original problem remains..... -----Original Message----- From: Nick Kew [mailto:nick@xxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Tuesday, October 03, 2006 1:50 PM To: users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: [users@httpd] mod_rewrite on 2.0.50 On Tuesday 03 October 2006 08:43, Sai Jai Ganesh Gurubaran wrote: > Hi, > I am a newbie. > We have set up Apache 2.0.50 as a forward proxy. Why such an old version? > Want to redirect a particular (external) page to our internal page. > i.e. for http://www.abc.com/suggestions.htm to > http://myanotherserver/suggestion.htm That's a reverse proxy. > #Apache as a Proxy > ProxyRequests On If that's open to the outside, it's a serious security hole. See http://www.apacheweek.org/tutorials/reverseproxies -- Nick Kew Application Development with Apache - the Apache Modules Book http://www.prenhallprofessional.com/title/0132409674 --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 information in this message is confidential and may be legally privileged. It is intended solely for the addressee. Access to this message by anyone else is unauthorized. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, or distribution of the message, or any action or omission taken by you in reliance on it is prohibited and may be unlawful. Please immediately contact the sender if you have received this message in error. This email does not constitute any commitment from Cordys Holding BV or any of its subsidiaries except when expressly agreed in a written agreement between the intended recipient and Cordys Holding BV or its subsidiaries. *********************************************************************** --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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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