On Fri, Oct 4, 2013 at 11:00 AM, Frank X <mo...@paragenic.com> wrote:
> We have the following configuration, one apache HTTP server which proxies > AJP requests to an application on another host, as in the Proxy balancer > configuration below. > > The problem we have is the application only understands one HOST http > header, i.e exampledomain.com, but we require www.exampledomain.com to be > rewritten to exampledomain.com however still show the > www.exampledomain.com address. > Try adding ProxyPreserveHost. Also which header are you checking on the backend side for the host name? > We also have HTTP proxies in between the browser and hitting the Apache > server, and do not want this content to be cached! > Ok, but I fail to understand the need of a variable here at all? > The following is our configuration: > > <Proxy balancer://ajp-cluster> > Order deny,allow > Allow from all > BalancerMember ajp://10.10.10.11:8009 > </Proxy> > > <VirtualHost *:80> > ServerName exampledomain.com > ServerAlias exampledomain.com *.exampledomain.com > RewriteEngine on > RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.exampledomain.com > RewriteRule ^/(.*)$ http://exampledomain.com/$1 [L,R=301,E=nocache:1] > ## Set the response header if the "nocache" environment variable is set > ## in the RewriteRule above. > Header always set Cache-Control "no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate" > env=nocache > ## Set Expires too ... > Header always set Expires "Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 GMT" env=nocache > ProxyPass / balancer://ajp-cluster/ > ProxyPassReverse / balancer://ajp-cluster/ > </VirtualHost> > > Your balancer talks AJP to the backend server which is different from HTTP. Also, I'm not sure you can use a variable set in the request phase in your response rules.