I see that now. Will check with the developers and see if they can work with
that. Thou, I'd still like to know why mod_rewrite is behaving funny.
Mike Cardwell wrote:
> mod_proxy should add an extra HTTP header to the request called
> "X-Forwarded-For" which you can parse to retrieve the IP address from.
> Note, this can contain multiple IPs if there are several proxies on
> route so make sure you parse it correctly.
>
> Regards,
> Mike
>
> Travis Sidelinger wrote:
>> We have used both mod_rewrite and mod_proxy successfully in numerous
>> configurations. Put them together and they don't seem to like each
>> other.
>>
>> We have a working production mod_proxy_balancer configuration for two
>> backend
>> web servers that is working great, except... The backend web servers
>> need the
>> IP address of the clients to identify their location.
>>
>> Yes, I had suggested just adding a location drop down so that users
>> could select
>> their own location within the web application. Too inconvenient for
>> the end
>> user they say.
>>
>> They want "c_loc=xxx" added to the URL at the load balancer. Okay,
>> this sounds
>> like a job for mod_rewrite. This should be easy enough using the QSA
>> option.
>> But... mod_proxy works great, mod_rewrite works great, I put the to
>> together and
>> they seem to not like each other.
>>
>> Below is one of the many configurations tested. The best I can get is
>> the URI
>> components are mixed up incorrectly. Any ideas?
>>
>> My build of apache:
>> tar -xvzf httpd-2.2.8.tar.gz
>> cd httpd-2.2.8
>> CFLAGS="-O2" ./configure --enable-http --enable-info=shared \
>> --enable-ssl=shared --enable-rewrite=shared --enable-speling=shared \
>> --enable-cgi=shared --enable-deflate=shared --enable-disk-cache=shared \
>> --enable-cache=shared --enable-proxy=shared --enable-proxy-http=shared \
>> --enable-proxy-balancer=shared --prefix=/vol/devl/loadbalancer
>> make
>> make install
>>
>> <VirtualHost catalog-devl.tld.org:81>
>> ServerName catalog-devl.tld.org
>> LogLevel debug
>>
>> <Proxy *>
>> AddDefaultCharset off
>> Order Allow,Deny
>> Allow from all
>> </Proxy>
>>
>> <Location /balancer-manager>
>> SetHandler balancer-manager
>> Order Allow,Deny
>> Allow from 192.168.200.0/24 192.168.222.0/24 192.168.223.0/24
>> 192.168.220.13
>> </Location>
>>
>> <Location />
>> Order Allow,Deny
>> Allow from 192.168.0.0/16 172.16.0.0/12
>> </Location>
>>
>> # Add the client's location number to the URL
>> RewriteEngine On
>> # Large list of locations goes here. List removed to shorten for
>> email
>> RewriteCond %{REMOTE_HOST} ^192\.168\.1\.[5-8]
>> RewriteRule /.*\.aspx?\?
>> http://catalog-devl.tld.org%{REQUEST_URI}&c_loc=730 [L]
>> RewriteCond %{REMOTE_HOST} ^192\.168\.220\.
>> # Here are things I have tried
>> RewriteRule "^/(.*)$" proxy:balancer://aquabrowser$1&c_loc=220"
>> [QSA,L] # I
>> get 404 Error: "GET //cd/README&c_loc=220%22?test=1 HTTP/1.1" in the
>> logs of the
>> backend server.
>> RewriteRule "^(.*\?.*)$"
>> "http://catalog1.tld.org%{REQUEST_URI}&c_loc=220";
>> [L,P] # I get 404 Error: "GET /cd/README&c_loc=220?test=1 HTTP/1.1"
>> in the logs
>> of the backed server.
>> # This is a long list other things I have tried. Nothing seems to
>> work.
>>
>> ProxyRequests Off
>> ProxyVia On
>> ProxyPreserveHost On
>>
>> ProxyPass /balancer-manager !
>>
>> # Catalog Development
>> ProxyPass / balancer://aquabrowser/
>> <Proxy balancer://aquabrowser>
>> BalancerMember http://catalogdev.tld.org:80 min=1 smax=20
>> loadfactor=5
>> #BalancerMember http://catalog1.tld.org:80 min=1 smax=20
>> loadfactor=5
>> route=CAT1
>> #BalancerMember http://catalog2.tld.org:80 min=1 smax=20
>> loadfactor=5
>> route=CAT2
>> ProxySet lbmethod=byrequests
>> ProxySet stickysession=ABbalancer
>> ProxySet nofailover=Off
>> ProxySet maxattempts=3
>> ProxySet timeout=5
>> Order Allow,Deny
>> Allow from 192.168.0.0/16 172.16.0.0/12
>>
>> </Proxy>
>> ProxyPassReverse / http://catalogdev.tld.org
>> #ProxyPassReverse / http://catalog1.tld.org
>> #ProxyPassReverse / http://catalog2.tld.org
>> </VirtualHost>
>>
>>
>> Travis Sidelinger
>>
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