Robin-David Hammond wrote:
Mod_rewrite might do this. It can cause the user to enter one uri, but
apache to rewrite the uri BEFORE parsing it.
Thanks for the feedback. I got it working with two virutal host
directives, mod_rewrite and mod_proxy:
NameVirtualHost *:80 <- This is important. I had commented it out while
playing with my configuration.
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName myserver.chubb.com
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule /portal http://portal.chubb.com [L,R]
.
.
.
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName portal.chubb.com
ProxyRequests Off
ProxyPass / http://localhost:8080/
ProxyPassReverse / http://localhost:8080/
.
.
.
</VirtualHost>
This works well as long as I have portal.chubb.com in DNS or the
requesting client's /etc/hosts file. Now the question is can I
accomplish the same thing but have apache resolve the host name locally
rather than making the client query DNS?
- Tod
On Wed, 21 Mar 2007, Tod Thomas wrote:
I'm running apache v2.2.0, built from scratch, on an FC6 box. I have
a Tomcat based portal server running from port 8080 on the same box.
The portal itself, upon initial request, redirects the client a couple
of times before it finally rests at a default home page. I'd like to
accomplish a couple of things.
First, any request that arrives to the apache server
http://myserver/portal I'd like forwarded to http://localhost:8080
without the user ever noticing the are leaving http://myserver/portal.
This sounded like a job for reverse proxy.
I can get it working just fine if I use this construct:
<IfModule mod_proxy.c>
ProxyRequests Off
ProxyPreserveHost On
ProxyPass / http://localhost:8080/
ProxyPassReverse / http://localhost:8080/
</IfModule>
However I don't want to proxy every request to http://myserver, just
requests to http://myserver/portal. When I try this:
<IfModule mod_proxy.c>
ProxyRequests Off
ProxyPreserveHost On
ProxyPass /portal/ http://localhost:8080/
ProxyPassReverse /portal/ http://localhost:8080/
</IfModule>
It fails. I have a feeling it has to do with the multiple redirects
the portal does prior to presenting its initial home page, but I'm not
sure since it works fine pointing to /.
Another thing I would like to try and accomplish is to replace
http://localhost:8080 with a virtual domain. So instead the proxy
example above would 'redirect' to http://virtualdomain:8080. This
would still be invisible to the user as they would see the traffic
directed to http://myserver/portal. The virtualdomain's name would be
resolved locally using an entry in /etc/hosts.
I'd really like to get the first one working. The second is more
esoteric but also valuable.
Can anyone offer any advice? Please let me know if there is anything
that needs clarification.
Thanks - Tod
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