If it were not for the Proxy server, the user would just get a "Connection refused" or "Unable to connect/Connection timed out" which in my opinion is no better than that HTTP 502 (Bad Gateway). At least the proxy server gives you the option of serving a custom error page for the HTTP 502 using the ErrorDocument directive, explaining to the user that the server is temporarily unavailable.
Then of course, if you are using the WebSphere plugin and you have multiple WAS backends, chances that no WAS is available at any given time should be pretty slim... -ascs -----Original Message----- From: Richard de Vries [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 28, 2006 4:50 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reverse Proxy between WebSphere and the WebServer - prevent "Bad Gateway" errors. I was wondering if anyone on this list has ever configured a WebSphere environment with a reverse Proxy (Apache) sitting between the WebSphere App Server, and the WebServer. Why would you want to do that you may ask? The answer is simple ... to secure the WebSphere Application Server instance from people trying to bypass the webservers. Basically, I have WAS listening on the 127.0.0.1 adapter of the server, and have the Proxy Server listen on the public IP addresses. The proxy server in turn will proxy the incoming requests from the public IP to WAS on localhost. So far all is well. The problem comes with the WebSphere WebServer plugins. Since we're running our WAS in a clustered environment -- the WebSphere plugin does some loadbalancing and logic to determine what WAS instance is up. If an instance is down, it's supposed to send the request to one of the alternate servers. Unfortunately, with the Proxy server in the middle, the WAS plugin doesn't detect the WAS instance as being down, because even with the WAS instance down, the proxy is accepting connections. This then results in a "Bad Gateway" error. Any suggestions on how to circumvent this issue? Thank you :-) Richard --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] " from the digest: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
