On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 6:33 PM, Raphael Bauduin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 2:54 PM, Severin Gehwolf
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Hi!
> >
> >> Here are more details:
> >>
> >> I have an apache server (front.example.com) configured as a reverse
> >> proxy, and requests are actually handled by apache servers not
> >> directly reachable from the outside. Those apache servers
> >> (back1listening on 10.0.0.1 and back2 on 10.0.0.2) are configured for
> >> doing virtual hosting.
> >>
> >> back1 serves pages for the websites www.example.com and www.test.com
> >>
> >> So www.example.com resolves to the IP of front.example.com, which will
> >> proxy the request to back1.  But the Host header should be set as
> >> back1 also serves www.test.com.
> >>
> >> My current solution is to use mod_proxy with ProxyPass,
> >>       ProxyPass / http://www.example.com/
> >>       ProxyPassReverse / http://www.example.com/
> >> and an entry in /etc/hosts:
> >>      10.0.0.1    www.example.com
> >>
> >> I hoped to be able to write something similar to
> >>     RewriteRule (.*) http://10.0.0.1$1 [P, HEADER:Host=www.example.com]
> >>
> >> but no documentation seems to imply there's a way to do this.
> >>
> >> I'll be happy to take all advice you might have!
> >
> > Maybe, you should look at ProxyPreserveHost
> >
> > http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mod_proxy.html#proxypreservehost
> >
>
> Yes, thanks!
>
> Still curious to know if there's a way to set a header with
> RewriteRule though ;-)
>
> Raph
>
> Raph
>

eg:
 RewriteRule ^/(.*)$
http://www/~me/printenv.cgi[L,P,E=remoteUser:%{LA-U:REMOTE_USER}]
 RequestHeader set X_REMOTE_USER %{remoteUser}e
 RequestHeader add "X-H-USER" "%{remoteUser}e"

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