On 2/14/06, James W. Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> These applications fail when served by the reverse proxy because, to the
> browser, the URL is relative to the root of the reverse proxy host, not the 
> REAL
> application host.  The reverse proxy returns a 404 because there is no virtual
> directory/application named "cgi-bin", and our administrator won't let us 
> define
> one to point to cgi-bin on our app server, because it's a common name2.
> Unfortunately, these are older applications that we purchased from a third 
> party
> that no longer supports, so we can't change the application to use a more
> flexible relative URL.

The third-party module mod_proxy_html can solve problems like this. 
But I agree with you that virtual hosting on the proxy is the simplest
and best technique.

Joshua.

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