----- "Martin Kuba" <makub@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi all, Hi Martin, > no response so far, but I have figured it myself, the right directive > is Thank you for this post. > RewriteRule .* - [E=AJP_SSL_CLIENT_S_DN:%{SSL:SSL_CLIENT_S_DN}] > > Cheers > > Martin > > Dne 12.1.2011 12:36, Martin Kuba napsal(a): > > Hi all, > > > > I am trying to pass an arbitrary environment variable from Apache > (2.2) to Tomcat (6.0) > > using mod_proxy_ajp, but without success so far. Specifically I want > to pass the > > SSL_CLIENT_S_DN variable set by the mod_ssl. > > > > The manual page > > http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mod_proxy_ajp.html > > says that > > > > "Environment variables whose names have the prefix AJP_ are > forwarded to the origin server > > as AJP request attributes (with the AJP_ prefix removed from the > name of the key)." > > > > However I can't figure out how I can set such a variable. I have > Googled up > > several solutions, but none worked. > > > > SetEnv can assign only static strings as values, not variables. > > > > This directive: > > > > SetEnvIf SSL_CLIENT_S_DN (.*) AJP_SSL_CLIENT_S_DN=$1 IIRC, the problem is that SetEnvIf runs to late, but I'm probably talking out of my ass. > > sets empty string. > > > > Using mod_rewrite like > > > > RewriteCond %{SSL_CLIENT_S_DN} (.*) > > RewriteRule .* - [E=AJP_SSL_CLIENT_S_DN:%1] > > > > or > > > > RewriteCond %{SSL_CLIENT_S_DN} (.*) > > RewriteRule .* - [E=AJP_SSL_CLIENT_S_DN:%{SSL_CLIENT_S_DN}] > > > > does not work either. > > > > I have even tried > > > > RequestHeader set X-SSL-DN "%{SSL_CLIENT_S_DN}e" > > SetEnvIf X-SSL-DN (.*) AJP_SSL_CLIENT_S_DN=$1 > > > > but only the header X-SSL-DN is set, not the AJP_SSL_CLIENT_S_DN > variable. > > > > It looks like the SSL_CLIENT_S_DN is not present in the time when > the RewriteRule > > or SetEnvIf directives are processed. > > > > > > I know that I can use mod_jk instead of mod_proxy_ajp, and it > provides the directive > > > > JkEnvVar SSL_CLIENT_S_DN > > > > which is exactly what I need. However I wonder why the mod_proxy_ajp > documentation > > mentions the AJP_ prefixed variables when it is impossible to set > them. > > > > Or why the mod_proxy_ajp dpes not provide a directive similar to the > JkEnvVar directive of mod_jk. > > > > Best regards > > > > Martin > > > -- > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Supercomputing Center Brno Martin Kuba > Institute of Computer Science email: makub@xxxxxxxxxxx > Masaryk University http://www.ics.muni.cz/~makub/ > Botanicka 68a, 60200 Brno, CZ mobil: +420-603-533775 > -------------------------------------------------------------- i -- Igor GaliÄ Tel: +43 (0) 664 886 22 883 Mail: i.galic@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx URL: http://brainsware.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