Need help in ProxyRemoteMatch (Apache Users)

Hi,

Apache Server 1:(Reverse proxy)

I have the following apache reverse proxy configured in one of the machine and it works as expected. This apache proxy sends the requests to appserver and gets the response back.

Listen 10443

ServerName XXXX

DocumentRoot "C:/Program Files/Apache Software Foundation/Apache2.2/htdocs"

CustomLog "logs/access1.log" common

ProxyRequests off

ProxyPass / http://AppServerIP:Port/

ProxyPassReverse / http://AppServerIP:Port /

</VirtualHost>

Apache Server 2:(Forward Proxy)

There is a forward proxy configured in another machine as follows.

Listen 10445

ServerName xxxx

DocumentRoot "C:/Program Files/Apache Software Foundation/Apache2.2/htdocs"

CustomLog "logs/access2.log" common

ProxyRequests On

ProxyVia On

Order allow,deny

allow from all

</Proxy>

</VirtualHost>

Question:

in Apache Server 1, I need to identify a particular request and send that request alone to Appserver via Apache Server 2:

To do that I have added

ProxyRemoteMatch /login(.*)$ http://ApacheServer2:10445/

in Apache server 1 configuration after the ProxyPass.

Now when I request for http://ApacheServer1:10443/login/login.jsp, the request goes to the Forward Proxy and then it goes to appserver which is perfect.

But login.jsp contains some image links(/static/img/JpmcLogo.gif) in the page which are not getting loaded in the browser.

Logs for ApacheServer1:

10.139.16.44 - - [05/May/2011:09:21:45 -0500] "GET /login/login.jsp HTTP/1.1" 200 8000

10.139.16.44 - - [05/May/2011:09:21:45 -0500] "GET /static/img/JpmcLogo.gif HTTP/1.1" 404 221

Logs for ApacheServer2:

10.139.16.44 - - [05/May/2011:09:21:45 -0500] "GET http://AppServer:Port/login/login.jsp HTTP/1.1" 200 8000

10.139.16.44 - - [05/May/2011:09:21:45 -0500] "GET /static/img/JpmcLogo.gif HTTP/1.1" 404 221

ApaceServer2 proxy should receive only requests which matches the ProxyRemoteMatch regular _expression_ /login(.*)$.

But from ApacheServer2 logs we can see that it receives the request for the image /static/img/JpmcLogo.gif. Based on the ProxyRemoteMatch regular _expression_ it should not receive this request at all, instead this image request should go to app server directly. That is the reason the images are not getting loaded in the browser and it’s failing with 404 error.

Am I using the ProxyRemoteMatch correctly? Someone please help to solve this.

Thanks in advance.

Regards,

Vasanth

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