Try:
<Proxy balancer://196f045aca6adc82a0b6eea93ed286a1/ >
On Jul 8, 2011, at 12:29 PM, Micha Lenk wrote:
> Hi Apache developers,
>
> I'm using Apache as a reverse proxy in a simple load balancer setup.
> I use ProxyPassReverse in order to re-write the backend server name in HTTP
> redirections (ie. in the Location header of the HTTP response).
> My configuration for the virtual host essentially looks like this:
>
> <Proxy balancer://196f045aca6adc82a0b6eea93ed286a1>
> BalancerMember http://server-1.local status=-SE
> BalancerMember http://server-2.local status=-SE
> </Proxy>
> <VirtualHost 10.8.16.33:80>
> ServerName frontend.local
>
> <Location />
> ProxyPass balancer://196f045aca6adc82a0b6eea93ed286a1/
> ProxyPassReverse balancer://196f045aca6adc82a0b6eea93ed286a1/
> </Location>
> </VirtualHost>
>
> Now, I was wondering why redirects get an additional slash between the server
> name and the path. Example:
>
> 1. The backend server redirects the URL http://server-1.local/foo to
> the URL http://server-1.local/foo/ because this is actually a
> directory (so far no issue)
>
> 2. With the configuration above the reverse proxy redirects the URL
> http://frontend.local/foo to http://frontend.local//foo/
>
> What I bother about is the additional slash before '/foo/', so I digged into
> the source code and found the following lines in modules/proxy/proxy_util.c:
>
> PROXY_DECLARE(const char *) ap_proxy_location_reverse_map(request_rec *r,
> proxy_dir_conf *conf, const char *url)
> {
> [...]
> l1 = strlen(url);
> [...]
> for (i = 0; i < conf->raliases->nelts; i++) {
> if (ap_proxy_valid_balancer_name((char *)real, 0) &&
> (balancer = ap_proxy_get_balancer(r->pool, sconf, real))) {
> int n, l3 = 0;
> proxy_worker **worker = (proxy_worker **)balancer->workers->elts;
> const char *urlpart = ap_strchr_c(real, '/');
> if (urlpart) {
> if (!urlpart[1])
> urlpart = NULL;
> else
> l3 = strlen(urlpart);
> }
> for (n = 0; n < balancer->workers->nelts; n++) {
> l2 = strlen((*worker)->s->name);
> if (urlpart) {
> /* urlpart (l3) assuredly starts with its own '/' */
> if ((*worker)->s->name[l2 - 1] == '/')
> --l2;
> if (l1 >= l2 + l3
> && strncasecmp((*worker)->s->name, url, l2) == 0
> && strncmp(urlpart, url + l2, l3) == 0) {
> u = apr_pstrcat(r->pool, ent[i].fake, &url[l2 + l3],
> NULL);
> return ap_construct_url(r->pool, u, r);
> }
> }
> else if (l1 >= l2 && strncasecmp((*worker)->s->name, url, l2)
> == 0) {
> u = apr_pstrcat(r->pool, ent[i].fake, &url[l2], NULL);
> return ap_construct_url(r->pool, u, r);
> }
> worker++;
> }
> [...]
>
> Right now I don't really understand the reason for the special casing of
> urlpart == "/" in modules/proxy/proxy_util.c, lines 1126 to 1129 (SVN rev.
> 1144374). If urlpart == "/", then the code in lines 1151 and 1152 gets
> executed, which seems to add the slash.
>
> I tried to remove the special casing (see submitted patch), and apparently
> the removal fixes the issue.
>
> Does anybody know the reason for the special casing mentioned above?
> If not I want to suggest to commit my patch.
>
> Regards,
> Micha
>
