Robin-David Hammond wrote:
Mod_rewrite might do this. It can cause the user to enter one uri, but apache to rewrite the uri BEFORE parsing it.
Thanks for the feedback. I got it working with two virutal host directives, mod_rewrite and mod_proxy:
NameVirtualHost *:80 <- This is important. I had commented it out while playing with my configuration.
<VirtualHost *:80> ServerName myserver.chubb.com RewriteEngine on RewriteRule /portal http://portal.chubb.com [L,R] . . . </VirtualHost> <VirtualHost *:80> ServerName portal.chubb.com ProxyRequests Off ProxyPass / http://localhost:8080/ ProxyPassReverse / http://localhost:8080/ . . . </VirtualHost>This works well as long as I have portal.chubb.com in DNS or the requesting client's /etc/hosts file. Now the question is can I accomplish the same thing but have apache resolve the host name locally rather than making the client query DNS?
- Tod
On Wed, 21 Mar 2007, Tod Thomas wrote:I'm running apache v2.2.0, built from scratch, on an FC6 box. I have a Tomcat based portal server running from port 8080 on the same box. The portal itself, upon initial request, redirects the client a couple of times before it finally rests at a default home page. I'd like to accomplish a couple of things.First, any request that arrives to the apache server http://myserver/portal I'd like forwarded to http://localhost:8080 without the user ever noticing the are leaving http://myserver/portal. This sounded like a job for reverse proxy.I can get it working just fine if I use this construct: <IfModule mod_proxy.c> ProxyRequests Off ProxyPreserveHost On ProxyPass / http://localhost:8080/ ProxyPassReverse / http://localhost:8080/ </IfModule>However I don't want to proxy every request to http://myserver, just requests to http://myserver/portal. When I try this:<IfModule mod_proxy.c> ProxyRequests Off ProxyPreserveHost On ProxyPass /portal/ http://localhost:8080/ ProxyPassReverse /portal/ http://localhost:8080/ </IfModule>It fails. I have a feeling it has to do with the multiple redirects the portal does prior to presenting its initial home page, but I'm not sure since it works fine pointing to /.Another thing I would like to try and accomplish is to replace http://localhost:8080 with a virtual domain. So instead the proxy example above would 'redirect' to http://virtualdomain:8080. This would still be invisible to the user as they would see the traffic directed to http://myserver/portal. The virtualdomain's name would be resolved locally using an entry in /etc/hosts.I'd really like to get the first one working. The second is more esoteric but also valuable.Can anyone offer any advice? Please let me know if there is anything that needs clarification.Thanks - Tod ---------------------------------------------------------------------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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