Hi Krist,all
indeed the cause was related to redirects on the backend application. The developers fixed this issue and the url proxying is working now.
I appreciate your help and support. thank you.
--- On Tue, 15/4/08, Krist van Besien <krist.vanbesien@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> From: Krist van Besien <krist.vanbesien@xxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: url proxying
> To: users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, melanie_pfefer@xxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Tuesday, 15 April, 2008, 10:48 PM
> On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 9:03 PM, Melanie Pfefer
> <melanie_pfefer@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > SSLProxyEngine On
> >
> > SSLProxyCACertificatePath /usr/local/apache2/conf/ssl
> > ProxyPass /abc/ https://backend:8443/abc/
> > #ProxyPassReverse /abc/ https://abc:8443/abc/
> >
> > The redirects works. But proxying not.
>
> ProxyPass does a proxy, not a redirect. Do you have a
> "redirect"
> directive somewhere in your confing?
>
>
> > If I commented out the last line (ProxyPassReverse),
> firefox gives:
> >
> > 'Firefox has detected that the server is
> redirecting the request for this address in a way that will
> never complete.
> > This problem can sometimes be caused by disabling or
> refusing to accept cookies'
>
> Well, basically something is doing a redirect. Something,
> probably
> your backend server. You need to find out how to either
> stop your
> backend server from
> issueing redirects, or either make your backend server do
> redirects to
> the correct url.
>
> Basically when you run a web application behind a reverse
> proxy you
> must configure it as if it was on the reverse proxy itself.
> How to do
> this I don't know, as you haven't shown us what is
> really on your
> backend.
>
> Krist
>
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