Todd Nine schrieb: > No you misunderstood my post. I'm not an idiot, I understand the point of > proxying, if the target server is down I won't be able to connect. Sorry I didn't meant to be rude... Here's > a more clear example. I'm proxying 2 http servers, server A and server B. > If server B is not running when the proxy starts, I can't connect to server > A. I receive this message in the browser Eather my english is quite broken or this is quite different from your first explanation. Nitpicking aside, I tried to reproduce your error, but it's working fine here: VirtualHost *:80> ServerName proxytest.test.home ServerAdmin admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx DocumentRoot "/var/www/localhost/htdocs" Header set Server "apache on gentoo." <IfDefine PROXY> ProxyPass / http://oh_look.no.such.host/ ProxyPassReverse / http://oh_look.no.such.host/ </IfDefine> </VirtualHost> <VirtualHost *:80> ServerName projects.test.home ServerAdmin admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx DocumentRoot "/var/www/localhost/htdocs" Header set Server "apache on gentoo." <IfDefine PROXY> ProxyPass / http://localhost:8000/ ProxyPassReverse / http://localhost:8000/ </IfDefine> </VirtualHost> Now http://projects.test.home shows my trac projects and proxytest.test.home gives 502 proxy error: Proxy Error The proxy server received an invalid response from an upstream server. The proxy server could not handle the request GET /. Reason: DNS lookup failure for: oh_look.no.such.host Apache Server at proxytest.test.home Port 80 --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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