Exactly you actually got the core of my configuration.I have done exactly what you have said. I got problem in having such a thing.Some that had not worked.The problem was with the application generating the URLs which had path as /portal /library etc on their documentation page of the application they have not given the complete thing. They access it as http://localhost:9090/portal but when I checked apache response headers I found application was giving URLs /library/path/to/css in addition to any element with path /portal there are many other such html elements in that applicationl. I asked this question on their community and their documentation was wrong which I mailed them. After which no reply came. I had gone through complete apache2 documentation in this process in past 10 days many many times. So I was going through RFC http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2616.txt which has described a situation where multiple proxies in a chain are used for an HTTP_REQUEST So I wanted to try that on apache2. --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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