Hi ! Thanks for answering...
> You are facing a very typical problem. Undoubtly ;) ! > I am not proficient with mod_proxy_html, so I am not sure I can help you. > However, the est way is always to go and fix the application. It's such a pain ! There are plenty of well-designed apps, but far more poorly written ones ! > If you can not do that for whatever reason, then mod_proxy_html is a good > approach. > A more general approach is to work with mod_ext_filter. > See http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/mod_ext_filter.html I haven't heard about it. Thanks for the clue... > It has some nice examples. Needless to say, that this > is performance relevant I have rather rough servers to handle reverse-proxyfication : two dual-core Xeon @ 2 GHz with 2 GB RAM. They mostly sleep ;) ! > and that this is evolving > into not very elegant hack. I ran into such awful hacks with mod_proxy_html. Not a good approach, 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... > I am not sure I understand what you are trying to > achieve with E=HTTP_HOST... In order to get this to your > application, you will have to set the http host header > explicitely with mod_header. 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. 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 Let me explain what I was trying to do : alter the variables dumb apps rely on, to set them a way that make these apps work behind a RP without any patch or cryptic regexp. Thanks & regards, Al. --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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]
