Interesting ReverseProxy + PerlSections issue
Hello all- I have an interesting situation and I am hoping someone can point me in the right direction. Scenario : I am running two apache servers, stronghold up front for my reverse proxy ( 80 / 443 ) and a modperl apache running on port 802. All 80/443 requests are reverse proxied to the modperl server running on Port 802. This is all standard and works well. My problem is this : The backend server is dynamically configured via perl sections ( for vhosts ).Front end requests end up falling through to the default vhost since, unless specifically configured, they must proxy to 'localhost' which does not work ( wrong hostname ). My goal here is to have all non specifically mapped requests fall through to the _default_ vhost and then proxied back to port 802. I do NOT want to manually add vhosts specifically for proxying to the static configuration file ( to much human intervention ). I have tried this : VirtualHost _default_:80 ProxyPass / http://localhost:802/ ProxyPassReverse / http://localhost:802/ /VirtualHost But the backend server gets the actual localhost name as its ServerName and does not enter the VirtualHost hash properly, giving me the DocumentRoot for the localhost domain name. What I need to achieve is( and if I build a static vhost like this it works ) : VirtualHost _default_:80 ProxyPass / http://ACTUAL_REQUEST_DOMAIN_NAME:802/ ProxyPassReverse / http://ACTUAL_REQUEST_DOMAIN_NAME:802/ /VirtualHost Anyone know how to accomplish this? If I could access the ENV variables in a static apache configuration it would work I imagine. I am thinking some sort of mod_rewrite would work as well. Sort of half modperl, half apache but I have searched and not found this answer yet and imagine that SOMEONE on the list must have dealt with this sort of thing before. Any tips are appreciated, this is a major itch in my side! John-
[ANNOUNCE] Apache::ProxyRewrite 0.11
The uploaded file Apache-ProxyRewrite-0.11.tar.gz has entered CPAN as file: $CPAN/authors/id/C/CG/CGILMORE/Apache-ProxyRewrite-0.11.tar.gz size: 10843 bytes md5: 851e2561d7bcd9ef4fd20dd8cb735ad5 Apache::ProxyRewrite acts as a reverse-proxy that will rewrite URLs embedded in HTML documents per apache configuration directives. This module was written to allow multiple backend services with discrete URLs to be presented as one service and to allow the proxy to do authentication on the client's behalf. See ProxyRewrite.pm pod for detailed documentation. 2001-01-14 Christian Gilmore [EMAIL PROTECTED] o Added 'base' as an element of the LINK_ELEMENT hash o Made release 0.11 2001-01-02 Christian Gilmore [EMAIL PROTECTED] o Made first public release 0.10 $Id: ChangeLog,v 1.2 2001/01/14 19:47:28 cgilmore Exp $ Enjoy, Christian - Christian Gilmore Infrastructure Tools Team Lead Web Multimedia Development Tivoli Systems, Inc.
Need: Autherization one time password.
I want an authorization module to generate a one time password for a particular user name. For example, lets say I target some user names to have a one time password service by using a directive like: Auth_onetimeruser1, user2, ... If the password was blank (empty), the module would automagicly create and store a new password per some format string (perhaps): Auth_password_format"hello%16s" After a user logs in some specified number of times (default 1), the password would be blanked out. Of course, someone would have to be able to view the account information, but this should be different module. A module that would allow an "administrator" to view and change the user account data base.
Re: Need: Autherization one time password.
I seem to recall Randal did a column in Web Techniques on just such a thing. Check http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/ On Sun, 14 Jan 2001, George Sanderson wrote: I want an authorization module to generate a one time password for a particular user name. For example, lets say I target some user names to have a one time password service by using a directive like: Auth_onetimeruser1, user2, ... If the password was blank (empty), the module would automagicly create and store a new password per some format string (perhaps): Auth_password_format "hello%16s" After a user logs in some specified number of times (default 1), the password would be blanked out. Of course, someone would have to be able to view the account information, but this should be different module. A module that would allow an "administrator" to view and change the user account data base.
Re: mixing perl and c module on handler stack
On Fri, 12 Jan 2001, Danny Rathjens wrote: If you want to know why I just don't use Apache::SSI it is because I am dealing with a OpenAdStream from realmedia which has a modifed mod_include.so which makes calls to a 'proprietary' library. So it seems a lot easier to just be able to send the output from my handler into their mod_include. When we were using OAS we called their library call directly from our code rather then using their mod_include.c. So I do not really see a reason why you can not add the library call, via XS to Apache::SSI. (I have never looked at Apache::SSI, so I am not sure how easy that would be.) This way you can just use the slightly modified Apache::SSI and can leave out mod_include.c all together. -- Sander van Zoest [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Covalent Technologies, Inc. http://www.covalent.net/ (415) 536-5218 http://www.vanzoest.com/sander/
RE: Looking for a new distro
Hey just as an FYI... I've got mod_perl and apache 1.3.14 and PHP 4.04 (I think or maybe 4.03pl1) installed with no problems on my redhat 7 box. Now, it's my devel box so I don't know if there are any "major" problems with it. :) It does double duty as my devel box and my personal router (got my cable modem hooked up on it and then route my internal boxes through it. :)). For Apache/mod_perl/PHP, I downloaded the source and installed those directly along with Mysql... -- Jeff (FurBall) WebOverdrive Newbie Tech Board http://www.topniche.com/tech/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Clayton Cottingham aka drfrog [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, January 13, 2001 6:05 PM To: dreamwvr; Jamie Krasnoo Cc: Modperl Subject: Re: Looking for a new distro heya all: im really waiting for the next bunch of releases here, im hoping that they all start doing a lil more QA before release!! ive tried a lot of different dists and nothing has me going "oh yeah!!" mandrake 7.2 is my current "lesser of Nth evils" last summer i went to town downloading everything from debian to suse and back to slack and redhat at the time i started using mandrake its mod_perl was sett up nice its not bad on 7.2 but it splits up so there is an httpd and an httpd-perl i dont like having to configure both so i un-rpmd then and rolled my own, DSO style install in less than thirty mins drop my config in and zoom!! again some of this has to do with how a dist sets up apache i like it all in /home/ww but most put the conf 's under /etc etc etc. some of these compatiblility file management issues drive me nuts!! and i usually uninstall and recomp my own well that my take on it anyhow -- back in the day we didn't have no old school -dr. frog
Re: Need: Autherization one time password.
At 11:08 PM 1/14/2001 +, you wrote: I seem to recall Randal did a column in Web Techniques on just such a thing. Check http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/ I want an authorization module to generate a one time password for a particular user name. I think I found the article: http://www.webtechniques.com/archives/2000/05/perlhttp://www.webtechnique s.com/archives/2000/05/perl/ Self-Registering Password Protection, Part 1 Randal's requirements were some what similar. I wanted to randomly generate the password for a particular user after they log in a limited number of times and then send email to someone. After reading the article, I thinking the best way to implement my requirements would be to create (or modify) an authentication module that would keep track of how many times a user logs in and also be able to trigger (REDIRECT to) a cgi script when certain conditions are meet. My cgi script (custom requirements) could then regenerate the new password and do any the notifications required. The authentication trigger (REDIRECT) would be the trick, in that it should be generic enough to allow for a whole range of other situations.
RE: Looking for a new distro
I found what the problem was, thanks to Michael Weiner (Hunter). For some reason, when mod_perl is compiled in to Apache as a static, it loads the file stated in PerlRequire twice. When I recompiled mod_perl as a DSO it stopped doing that. This bug seems like its a problem with the RedHat distro. I should have seen it. There may be a reason that RH 7.0 comes with Apache compiled with all mods in DSO. This problem doesn't seem to crop up on other distributions. Anyways, I think we can put this thread to bed. Thanks to everyone for your comments. Jamie -Original Message- From: Jeffrey A. Stuart [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, January 14, 2001 3:48 PM To: Clayton Cottingham aka drfrog; dreamwvr; Jamie Krasnoo Cc: Modperl Subject: RE: Looking for a new distro Hey just as an FYI... I've got mod_perl and apache 1.3.14 and PHP 4.04 (I think or maybe 4.03pl1) installed with no problems on my redhat 7 box. Now, it's my devel box so I don't know if there are any "major" problems with it. :) It does double duty as my devel box and my personal router (got my cable modem hooked up on it and then route my internal boxes through it. :)). For Apache/mod_perl/PHP, I downloaded the source and installed those directly along with Mysql... -- Jeff (FurBall) WebOverdrive Newbie Tech Board http://www.topniche.com/tech/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Clayton Cottingham aka drfrog [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, January 13, 2001 6:05 PM To: dreamwvr; Jamie Krasnoo Cc: Modperl Subject: Re: Looking for a new distro heya all: im really waiting for the next bunch of releases here, im hoping that they all start doing a lil more QA before release!! ive tried a lot of different dists and nothing has me going "oh yeah!!" mandrake 7.2 is my current "lesser of Nth evils" last summer i went to town downloading everything from debian to suse and back to slack and redhat at the time i started using mandrake its mod_perl was sett up nice its not bad on 7.2 but it splits up so there is an httpd and an httpd-perl i dont like having to configure both so i un-rpmd then and rolled my own, DSO style install in less than thirty mins drop my config in and zoom!! again some of this has to do with how a dist sets up apache i like it all in /home/ww but most put the conf 's under /etc etc etc. some of these compatiblility file management issues drive me nuts!! and i usually uninstall and recomp my own well that my take on it anyhow -- back in the day we didn't have no old school -dr. frog
