Neil,
Thanks for the answer, I will do that.
But still I want to understand the behavior of both modules, who get
called first? Where can I read about this?
Thanks for your time.
Tamer
-----Original Message-----
From: Neil A. Hillard [mailto:neil.hillard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Monday, December 10, 2007 2:19 PM
To: users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Apache mod_rewrite/mod_proxy conflict?
Tamer Embaby wrote:
> I have the following simple setup:
>
> [1] LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so
> [2] LoadModule proxy_module modules/mod_proxy.so
> [3] LoadModule proxy_http_module modules/mod_proxy_http.so
> [4] RewriteEngine on
> [5] ProxyPass /testing http://myserverB/
> [6] ProxyPassReverse /testing http://myserverB/
> [7] RewriteRule ^/(.*)$ http://myserverA/$1 [P]
>
> My problem is:
>
> When I access http://myserver/testing/index.html, it gets handled by the
> rewrite rule and not the proxy module.
>
> The interesting point if I changed the order of LoadModule directives
> so now it reads:
> [1] LoadModule proxy_module modules/mod_proxy.so
> [2] LoadModule proxy_http_module modules/mod_proxy_http.so
> [3] LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so
>
> The proxy module handles the request and not the rewrite module!
>
> Is this behavior documented somewhere? Where can I read about it? I
> tried to Google a lot with no good. How can I control it?
>
> Moreover, what if I compiled in the rewrite_mod and proxy_mod statically
> into Apache, how would I control the order of modules calling then?
>
> I did my home work, scanned the FAQ, Googled but I cannot come up with
> any technical explanation for this.
Simple answer - don't mix them in this way (that's what I've been doing,
anyway)! Stick to mod_rewrite and you should be fine:
RewriteRule ^/testing/(.*)$ http://myserverB/$1 [P,L]
RewriteRule ^/(.*)$ http://myserverA/$1 [P]
ProxyPassReverse /testing http://myserverB/
You can include:
RewriteRule ^/testing$ /testing/ [R,L]
before the above if you want to handle a missing trailing slash.
HTH,
Neil.
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