Hi Folks, Simple question,
I was reading the documentation for mod_proxy module in version 2.2 on the apache.org website and I was a little confused by the difference between forward and reverse proxies. My understanding: Forward returns the addresses and reverse (default) returns the content. Is this true ? Regards, Arjun -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Joshua Slive Sent: Thursday, September 07, 2006 9:36 AM To: users@httpd.apache.org Subject: Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dynamic RewriteRule based on the URL On 9/7/06, Norman Khine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [1] <VirtualHost *:80> > > [2] ServerName domain.tld > [3] RewriteEngine on > [4] RewriteCond %{*HTTP_HOST*} *[^.]+*\.domain\.tld$ > [5] RewriteRule ^(.+) %{HTTP_HOST}$1 [C] > [6] RewriteRule *([^.]+)*\.domain\.tld(.*) http://localhost:9080/*$1*$2 [P] > > [7] RequestHeader set X-Base-Path %{*HTTP_HOST*} > > [8] ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/all-error_log > [9] CustomLog /var/log/apache2/all-access_log common > > [0] </VirtualHost> > > > I don't understand line [2], as the server gets the request http://folder.domain.tld as this points to an A record IP address Apache will return the default page and it stops, how do I inject the %{*HTTP_HOST*} value or is there some magic I am missing and don't see? > > Assuming that there is, Apache then switches the RewriteEngine on [3] and takes everything before domain.tld - what is the meaning of [^.]+ ? then the [C] means continue to the next RewriteRule which in my case needs to rewrite to an internal server and Proxy this i.e. [P], but this does not work for me either ;'( > > Line [7] I need to set the X-Base-Path to the folder name. > > I would like to avoid using vhost.map or any scripting but I am open to suggestions if there is no other way ;) > > By the way, I don't have the www.'folder'.domain.tld in my URL - maybe this is the problem, but don't see why? I don't understand that last line. But here is something that should be closer: <VirtualHost *:80> ServerName domain.tld ServerAlias *.domain.tld RewriteEngine on RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^([a-zA-Z_]+\.domain\.tld)$ RewriteRule (.+) http://localhost:9080/%1$1 [P,E=THEHOST:%1] RequestHeader set X-Base-Path %{THEHOST}e ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/all-error_log CustomLog /var/log/apache2/all-access_log common </VirtualHost> I don't know if this will work, but it is closer than what you have. A few notes: 1. My regex matching the HOST is more strict to avoid clients playing funny games with their host header and causing security problems. It accepts only hostnames containing letters and the underscore character. 2. In the RewriteRule %1 matches the regex from the RewriteCond and $1 matches the regex from the RewriteRule. 3. The funky stuff with THEHOST is necessary because the RequestHeader directive cannot access mod_rewrite variables. So I instead have mod_rewrite shove HTTP_HOST in an environment variable. One more note: I'm not actually sure whether RequestHeader can use env variables at all. You'd need to check the code to be sure. Joshua. --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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] --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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]
