*I know this is a long read...but I really need help, and felt the best way for anyone to help me remotely is to explain the issues in their entirety. *
Hello, I'm trying to set a reverse proxy, but first, some context: My office is subscribed to few academic journals. These journals verify the subscription via IP, such that anyone connected to the internet through our connection can access the journals. However, some individuals would like to access the journals away from the office as well. We have a VPN, but it only connects them to our intranet. Therefore, we want to create a reverse proxy such that the users with connect to the VPN, then to our intranet, and then to the proxy server, and then, ultimately, to the journal at hand. This works because the proxy server will be within our intranet, which they have access to through the VPN. So it will look like so: Client --> VPN --> Our Intranet --> Reverse Proxy --> Journal Note that I'm an intern and have had *very *little experience with Apache and networking in general (and Linux!)...so please explain things fully. I have attempted to follow this guide: http://www.apachetutor.org/admin/reverseproxies I'm running SUSE Linux Enterprise 11, and have installed apache through zypper. I installed the mod_proxy_html and mod_xml2enc modules via compiling. They are fully functional. (mod_proxy_html to rewrite links). In the examples below I'm attempting to reverse proxy both http://aip.organd http://apl.aip.org. So basically want I want to do is have anything that is http://aip.org/somepage.html to be http://proxysrv1/aip/somepage.html and anything that is http://apl.aip.org to be http://proxysrv1/apl/somepage.html. All of the content on the page must go through the proxy (note: I know that many of the links lead to other sub-domains, I will include those as well...but later, I figured I should get these two working first). *Please do not suggest a different server application like Squid, I'm required to use Apache. * So far, I have the following modifications to the http.conf file: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Include /etc/apache2/vhosts.d/*.conf ProxyHTMLEnable On ProxyHTMLExtended On ProxyHTMLLinks a href ProxyHTMLLinks area href ProxyHTMLLinks link href ProxyHTMLLinks img src longdesc usemap ProxyHTMLLinks object classid codebase data usemap ProxyHTMLLinks q cite ProxyHTMLLinks blockquote cite ProxyHTMLLinks ins cite ProxyHTMLLinks del cite ProxyHTMLLinks form action ProxyHTMLLinks input src usemap ProxyHTMLLinks head profile ProxyHTMLLinks base href ProxyHTMLLinks script src for ProxyHTMLLinks iframe src ProxyHTMLEvents onclick ondblclick onmousedown onmouseup \ onmouseover onmousemove onmouseout onkeypress \ onkeydown onkeyup onfocus onblur onload \ onunload onsubmit onreset onselect onchange ProxyRequests Off ProxyPass /aip/ http://aip.org/ ProxyPassReverse /aip/ http://aip.org/ ProxyHTMLURLMap http://www.aip.org http://proxysrv1/aip ProxyPass /apl/ http://apl.aip.org/ ProxyPassReverse /apl/ http://apl.aip.org/ ProxyHTMLURLMap http://apl.aip.org http://proxysrv1/apl <Location /aip/> ProxyHTMLEnable On ProxyHTMLExtended On ProxyPassReverse / ProxyHTMLURLMap / / RequestHeader unset Accept-Encoding </Location> <Location /apl/> ProxyHTMLEnable On ProxyHTMLExtended On ProxyPassreverse / ProxyHTMLURLMap / / RequestHeader unset Accept-Encoding </Location> ProxyHTMLLogVerbose On LogLevel Info ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- And the following modifications to the vhost.conf file: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- NameVirtualHost *:80 <VirtualHost *:80> ServerName proxysrv1 DocumentRoot /srv/www/htdocs HostnameLookups Off UseCanonicalName On ServerSignature On <Directory "/srv/www/htdocs"> Options Indexes All AllowOverride None Order allow,deny Allow from all </Directory> </VirtualHost> <VirtualHost *:80> Documentroot /srv/www/htdocs/aip Servername proxysrv1/aip HostnameLookups Off UseCanonicalName On ServerSignature On <Directory "/srv/www/htdocs/aip"> Options Indexes All AllowOverride None Order allow,deny Allow from all </Directory> </VirtualHost> <VirtualHost *:80> Documentroot /srv/www/htdocs/apl Servername proxysrv1/apl HostnameLookups Off UseCanonicalName On ServerSignature On <Directory "/srv/www/htdocs/apl"> Options Indexes All AllowOverride None Order allow,deny Allow from all </Directory> </VirtualHost> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- *The mass of issues:* 1) http://proxysrv1/aip/ looks like this: http://imgur.com/n6m0L.png The page source: http://paste.ubuntu.com/333007/ 2) http://proxysrv1/apl/ looks like this: http://proxysrv1/apl/ The page source: http://paste.ubuntu.com/333009/ 3) I created a virtual host & proxy at http://proxysrv1/apl/, yet links like http://apl.aip.org/about/about_the_journal redirect to http://proxysrv/about/about_the_journal rather than http://proxysrv/apl/about/about_the_journal 4) All the pages look like crap. I had aip.org working previously, but only if I set its directory to / (so by going to http://proxysrv1/ you went to aip.org/), and had no virtual hosts. 5) That's actually all I can think of. But the pages are pretty darn broken. *Please explain any fixes in a step-by-step process. Again, I'm new to this.*
