I have an application server from a vendor that comes bundled with an
additional Apache Tomcat server.  The webapp SelfService.war is vendor
supplied too.

Here's my problem (IP's replaced to protect the innocent):

networks:
DMZ=172.x.x.x
INTERNAL=10.x.x.x

server1 https listen = 172.1.1.1:23270
server2 https listen = 172.1.1.2:23270
F5 load balancer hostname = loadbalancer.domain.com:443
backend tomcat server = 10.1.1.1:18080

mod_proxy configuration:
ProxyPass /SelfService http://10.1.1.1:18080/SelfService
ProxyPassReverse /SelfService http://10.1.1.1:18080/SelfService

When I access these DMZ webservers which mod_proxy back to Apache Tomcat as:
https://172.1.1.1:23270/SelfService
and
https://172.1.1.2:23270/SelfService <https://172.1.1.1:23270/SelfService>
They load properly. Perfectly, every time!

When I access these DMZ webservers via the F5 load balancer (to which I
dont have access to, but the network folks configure for me), it hangs.
Eventually returns:
https://loadbalancer.domain.com:23270/SelfService
cant load.

No idea why the URL is being re-written with the ":23270".
I added static content to the server.xml on 10.1.1.1 (Tomcat) to test:
<Context docBase="/path/to/tomcat/static" path="/static" />
Then put a simple index.html in there.  Accessing via the Apache Web
Servers works fine, but if you hit it with the Load Balancer it once again
adds the https://loadbalancer.domain.com:23270/static

Do you have any thoughts?  Thanks so much, I have been working with this
for weeks now with no success

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