hello! Thanks for your response, but is this the same case for a reverse proxy? I am trying to build a reverse proxy not a forward one.
Thanks though! any other responses are greatly welcome! SBC On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 12:57 PM, Mark Brodis <mabro...@colorado4x4.net>wrote: > I am a n00b with Apache also but I'll take a stab at this. > > What you are wanting is actually 2 things. A fully functional (for at > least one website) forward HTTP proxy and also a domain name change. In my > opinion you will never get a functional webpage (at least not something as > complex and interconnected as a CNN site) with static mappings. Static > mappings such as mysite.com be translated to cnn.com could work...but as > you pointed out what about the rest of the items on the CNN page. There > will be images from Facebook, Twitter, 4space, Yahoo, Google..and everyone > of those could have 50 different hosts the images could come from, the > hostnames that you will pull content from will vary throughout the day and > your region. > > So, for that to work you are going to need to use a real outbound forward > HTTP proxy which your workstation/browser will know how to use (read up on > forward proxies versus reverse proxies, same software can be used in very > different ways). Now, using that method in theory you could still try to > change domain names of the site, though I'm not exactly sure how you would > do that and I don't think it would work right. Here's why...when a browser > requests an item from a server it sends the hostname in the HTTP header. > This seems redundant usually, as the CNN servers know they are CNN so why > send "cnn" in the header. This is because the server can serve up > different content based on the header value (look up virtual hosts, and > this is not virtual machine stuff). So while some web-servers will serve > up the same content whether you request it from the IP or a hostname, > others will serve up something different. Also the issue of SSL > certificates. The SSL cert has to match the site that the browser is going > to by name. SSL certs cannot be tied to an IP address and if you try to > forward a SSL cert through a domain-name-changed proxy service then the > name the browser has for a site will not match the CN (common name) value > in the SSL cert itself..and thus the browser will throw it's arms up, > complain, warn, etc. > > For a normal forward HTTP proxy there is a way to set them up as a secure > proxy which will handle the SSL certs correctly but that is because there > is no domain-name changing happening in the process. > > So, I'm not sure if what you're trying to do will work for a site as > complex as CNN. Could you do a domain-name-change on a buddy's site with > very little interconnecting..sure..but it would still be a very statically > defined setup. > > Good Luck... > -Mark > > > On Sun, Jan 26, 2014 at 8:08 PM, MM KP <sbc...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hello all >> >> I am new to apache & the apache mailing list so PLEASE forgive me for my >> long message : >> >> >> I am trying to configure a nice reverse proxy using Apache. Basically >> this is what I want : i want to be able to browse to something like >> testproxy.myproxy.com and proxy to www.cnn.com. I want to be able to see >> images and i want javascript and css and all that good stuff loaded as >> well. I already created a DNS record for testproxy.myproxy.com and this >> is the configuration im using for the virtual host: >> >> >> <VirtualHost [::]:80> >> ServerName testproxy.myproxy.com >> ProxyRequests off >> ProxyPass / http://www.cnn.com/ >> ProxyPassReverse / http://www.cnn.com/ >> </VirtualHost> >> >> >> now when i restart the httpd service (By the way I am using RHEL 6.5), I >> can browse to testproxy.myproxy.com but allthat appears in the browser >> are text and links. No images are loaded nor any CSS/javascript. What am I >> missing in my virtualhost configuration thats preventing me from loading >> images? Ive noticed that some of the images on cnn.com are hosted on a >> different site such as : >> >> http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/dam/assets/ >> >> Im guessing that since the images are hosted in the /cnn/dam/assets/ >> folder on i2.cdn.turner.com , and the virtualhost/reverse proxy is only >> set up to proxy pass to www.cnn.com , it is not loading images and >> scripts that are hosted on http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/dam/assets/. I >> dont know if i am even close to being accurate with my assumptions. Apache >> is a very new thing to me. >> >> >> my question is how do I go about configuring my virtualhosts properly so >> that every image and script that is on www.cnn.com, will be URL >> rewritten as testproxy.myproxy.com/ blah blah blah as opposed to >> i2.cdn.turner.com/etcetcetcetc? for example one of the images on CNN's >> homepage is: >> >> >> http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/dam/assets/140123154723-07-super-bowl-prep-bin-tease.jpg >> >> I want to be able to go to a browser, type in testproxy.myproxy.com in >> the address bar, proxy to www.cnn.com and when i right click on the >> image, i want the FQDN of the image to be something like >> http://testproxy.myproxy.com/images/super-bowl-prep-bin-tease.jpg. >> Basically i want all URLs to be rewritten as >> http://testproxy.myproxy.com/.......etc etc etc. >> >> All help is GREATLY appreciated because well, i am totally lost here lol. >> Ive done research on using mod_proxy_html and what not, but im still >> confused as to how I go about doing this in my situation. >> >> Please assist me! >> >> >> Thanks!! >> >> SBC >> >> >
