Hello All, I am trying to setup Apache 2.2.9 as a transparent proxy. So that the users don't have to configure their browsers. Now the URLs coming in are relative for transparent proxy, so normally apache tries to look it up on the filesystem and it obviously fails. So I added a RewriteRule to convert the relative to absolute URLs.
RewriteEngine On RewriteRule ^/(.*) http://%{HTTP_HOST}/$1 [P] RewriteLog "logs/rewrite_log" RewriteLogLevel 5 Now, it works perfectly for all traffic expect the one that is destined for the server itself. E.g. http://<apache_proxy_ip>:<port>/ Whenever I access the above link, the rewrite engine loops and the server reaches the MaxClient. I have included the log below. So, I added some conditions to not apply the RewriteRule for HOST destined to the server. RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !10.1.0.206.* RewriteRule ^/(.*) http://%{HTTP_HOST}/$1 [P] I wanted to confirm if this is the right way to do transparent proxy or is there a better way to make it more solid ? Just to mention, I want it to act primarily like a proxy server, so losing/blocking all webserver functionality is also fine, as long as I get the /server-status page. But I dont want a single url to fail the server. So I will be fine if there is a better way to get the transparency working while affecting the webserver. Thanks for your time. -- Pranav ============== lots of these message in the rewrite_log =============== 10.1.0.156 - - [12/Feb/2009:17:51:09 --0800] [10.1.0.206/sid#1a5bdab8][rid#1a6d66b8/initial] (2) init rewrite engine with requested uri / 10.1.0.156 - - [12/Feb/2009:17:51:09 --0800] [10.1.0.206/sid#1a5bdab8][rid#1a6d66b8/initial] (3) applying pattern '^/(.*)' to uri '/' 10.1.0.156 - - [12/Feb/2009:17:51:09 --0800] [10.1.0.206/sid#1a5bdab8][rid#1a6d66b8/initial] (4) RewriteCond: input='/' pattern='!^/server. *' => matched 10.1.0.156 - - [12/Feb/2009:17:51:09 --0800] [10.1.0.206/sid#1a5bdab8][rid#1a6d66b8/initial] (2) rewrite '/' -> 'http://10.1.0.206:2901/' 10.1.0.156 - - [12/Feb/2009:17:51:09 --0800] [10.1.0.206/sid#1a5bdab8][rid#1a6d66b8/initial] (2) forcing proxy-throughput with http://10.1. 0.206:2901/ 10.1.0.156 - - [12/Feb/2009:17:51:09 --0800] [10.1.0.206/sid#1a5bdab8][rid#1a6d66b8/initial] (1) go-ahead with proxy request proxy:http://1 0.1.0.206:2901/ [OK] 10.1.0.206 - - [12/Feb/2009:17:51:09 --0800] [10.1.0.206/sid#1a5bdab8][rid#1a6d66b8/initial] (2) init rewrite engine with requested uri / 10.1.0.206 - - [12/Feb/2009:17:51:09 --0800] [10.1.0.206/sid#1a5bdab8][rid#1a6d66b8/initial] (3) applying pattern '^/(.*)' to uri '/' 10.1.0.206 - - [12/Feb/2009:17:51:09 --0800] [10.1.0.206/sid#1a5bdab8][rid#1a6d66b8/initial] (4) RewriteCond: input='/' pattern='!^/server. *' => matched 10.1.0.206 - - [12/Feb/2009:17:51:09 --0800] [10.1.0.206/sid#1a5bdab8][rid#1a6d66b8/initial] (2) rewrite '/' -> 'http://10.1.0.206:2901/' 10.1.0.206 - - [12/Feb/2009:17:51:09 --0800] [10.1.0.206/sid#1a5bdab8][rid#1a6d66b8/initial] (2) forcing proxy-throughput with http://10.1. 0.206:2901/ 10.1.0.206 - - [12/Feb/2009:17:51:09 --0800] [10.1.0.206/sid#1a5bdab8][rid#1a6d66b8/initial] (1) go-ahead with proxy request proxy:http://1 0.1.0.206:2901/ [OK]
