Thanks Andre for the detailed explanations. Looks like I have it figured out:
From: André Warnier [...@ice-sa.com] >> >> 1. Client goes to http://dodo.foo.com: >> A. server changes this to http://foo.com/bar >> B. server returns content (which will be http://foo.com/bar/index.html) >> C. client sees the content in browser >> D. AND the client's browser shows the URL (in Location text field) as >> being http://dodo.foo.com (rather than http://foo.com/bar/index.html) >> > > As someone else indicated previously, this is a standard feature of > mod_proxy. Yes. However, AFAICT the ProxyPass cannot be given conditions as with RewriteRule. So if I have ServerName foo.com ServerAlias dodo.foo.com then the ProxyPass/Reverse will be applied to requests to either domains, which is not what I want (requests to foo.com should be processed as usual as there are other web apps served from there). >> 2. Client clicks on a link that is on the page just received: >> A. the href will be, say, http://foo.com/bar/someotherpage.html >> B. server returns content >> C. client sees the content in browser >> D. AND the client's browser shows the URL (in Location text field) as >> being >> http://dodo.foo.com/someotherpage.html (rather than >> http://foo.com/bar/someotherpage.html) > > So I will rectify A above as follows : > > A. the href will be http://dodo.foo.com/someotherpage.html You're right, the href is actually "/someotherpage.html" so it will be as you say. > And that will work, because of the Proxy rules above (he will get the > content of the file "http://foo.com/bar/someotherpage.html"; ) In order to apply the proxying just for dodo.foo.com only, I use a rewrite rule. Here is what I have so far, seems to work completely: RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^dodo\.foo\.com$ RewriteRule ^/bar/(.*) /$1 [R,L] RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^dodo\.foo\.com$ RewriteRule ^(.+) %{HTTP_HOST}$1 [C] RewriteRule ^dodo\.foo\.com/(.*) http://foo.com/bar/$1 [P] The [R,L] of first rule causes a redirect to client and the rule processing ends so client will just make a new request with the /bar/ stripped out, AND client browser will show the redirected URL. The [P] in second rule will cause proxying, but only for requests to dodo.foo.com, so client will NOT see that foo.com/bar is really the URL used. Time will tell if there are any corner cases that this doesn't cover. But boy, that rewrite module is powerful stuff! Oliver --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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: users-unsubscr...@httpd.apache.org " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscr...@httpd.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@httpd.apache.org
