Just an idea from a guy who really knows next to nothing about proxies : If- a proxy configuration allows you to selectively forward some requests to a selection of sites, but not to a local file
- but what you want to do is to redirect some URLs to a local filethen can you not set up a local virtual host under some name, and forward ditto "local" requests to that local virtual host, whose pleasure it would be to serve the local stuff in question ?
André Tavian Barnes wrote:
On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 2:03 PM, Nick Kew <nick@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:On Tue, 8 Jul 2008 13:48:54 -0600 "Tavian Barnes" <tavianator@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:But that's a reverse proxy, not a forward one. I'm attempting to use an Apache server as a proxy for my web browser, that uses a local copy of certain files from certain sites. As such, it has to be a forward proxy, because I'm using it for arbitrary web sites.That's not what you originally asked.It's what I attempted to ask, by referring to "forward proxies" in the subject line.Anyway, three solutions, from the most sensible to the least: * Set up proxy exceptions in your browser preferencesI know of nothing that can direct particular web addresses to local copies of files; all the tools I've seen can just selectively proxy addresses.* Use mod_cache for your local copiesMy local copies are intended to differ from the copies on the web. Can mod_cache or mod_file_cache really be set to use a particular local version of a file, rather than automatically generating the cache? I realise that I didn't clarify this earlier.* Use mod_rewrite - probably a rewritemap.Is there any reason I'd need to use a rewrite map? Reading through the mod_rewrite documentation, I came up with this, RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.google\.com RewriteRule ^/ig /ig [R] which unfortunately doesn't work. What am I missing?Unless of course your real purpose is to block crap like animated images, in which case maybe the rewritemap makes good sense (I use my ADSL router to do that). -- Nick Kew Application Development with Apache - the Apache Modules Book http://www.apachetutor.org/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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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