Hi Eric, On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 2:44 PM, Eric Covener <covener@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 4:40 PM, Peter Michaux <petermichaux@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> The back end server caches files in two different places and I would >> like Apache to look in those two places and only proxy if the cached >> file cannot be found. For example, a request to > > Insead of ProxyPass, use mod_rewrite to poke around in the filesystem: > > RewriteCond /var/cache/app/%{HTTP_HOST}/%{REQUEST_URI} -f > RewriteRule .* /var/cache/app/%{HTTP_HOST}/%{REQUEST_URI} [L] > > RewriteCond /var/cache/otherapp/%{HTTP_HOST}/%{REQUEST_URI} -f > RewriteRule .* /var/cache/otherapp/%{HTTP_HOST}/%{REQUEST_URI} [L] > > # couldn't find the file in either dir > RewriteRule ^/(.*) http://localhost:3000/$1 [P] > > Or, let Apache cache things instead of writing them to disk, and it > would be more transparent. > > (Note that you need to put the rewrite stuff in per-vhost context, > otherwise it won't work as-is. You also probably want to handle > directories if that makes sense for your app (-d)) Thanks for this. I was able to piece together what I needed with your above idea and some more documentation reading. It seems the [P] uses mod_proxy and so ProxyPreserveHost is still honoured with the rewrite rule to localhost:3000. Thanks, Peter --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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