hya, On Fri, Oct 19, 2007 at 03:32:37PM +0200, Alan AZZERA wrote: > I ran into such awful hacks with mod_proxy_html.
Proxying bad applications is a dirty business. They do not get any cleaner when they are told to behave nicely behind a proxy. > IMHO... It could be efficient, but it was impossible to quit the chain > of rewriting rules at the first match, resulting in ugly rewritings, > ans possibly infinite loops ! mod_proxy_html had though a "L" flag > (see http://apache.webthing.com/mod_proxy_html/config.html), which > action is supposed to be 'If this rule matches, no more rules are > applied". But it didn't work with the packages available in my Etch > server... mod_rewrite has that too. When proxying with mod_rewrite it is a good practice to set that. RewriteRule /(.*) http://backend/$1 [proxy,last] > You're right : with "RequestHeader set HOST app.private.zone", I can > alter the HTTP_HOST Apache environment variable. But I don't know how > to alter variables like SERVER_NAME. SERVER_NAME is not an environment variable... I do not know your apps, so I can not really tell, but many times setting the appropriate http header "Host" is enough. > Anyway, I get what I want, but it doesn't help : it gets my RP > confused. It now returns : > Proxy Error > The proxy server received an invalid response from an upstream server. > The proxy server could not handle the request GET /app/somepage.php. > Reason: Error reading from remote server You must have messed your requests completely on the proxy. OR something similar. I suggest you run tcpdump (tcpdump -A -s 0 port 8080) or something similar between the two and dump the traffic for debugging. good luck, christian --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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]
