On Mon, 2010-07-06 at 11:02 +0100, Tom Evans wrote: > On Sun, Jun 6, 2010 at 9:30 PM, John Iliffe <john.ili...@iliffe.ca> wrote: > > I sent the following request for help a couple of weeks back but so far > > no response. Maybe I didn't make the actual question clear :-( > > Anyhow, I have done quite a bit of experimentation since with the > > following non-results. > > > > What I'm trying to do: > > > > I have a mail server with a web interface; to avoid conflict with Apache > > HTTP I have it on port 8080. That port is blocked by the firewall so I > > am trying to proxy it to HTTP/80 through Apache. Internally, the mail > > server is reached as: http://192.168.1.12:8080 and works OK. > > > > I read the Apache docs and also: > > http://www.apachetutor.org/admin/reverseproxies > > and created the following config file: > > > > NameVirtualHost *:80 > > > > # Default host > > <VirtualHost *:80> > > ServerName www.xxxxx.ca > > DocumentRoot /httpd/xxxxx > > ProxyRequests off > > ProxyPass /mymail/* ! > > ProxyPass /mymail/ http://192.168.1.12:8080 > > ProxyPassReverse /mymail/ http://192.168.1.12:8080 > > I'm not sure what you are trying to do here with the > ProxyPass /mymail/* ! > > This says not to proxy (literally) '/mymail/*'. If you didn't want to > proxy anything below '/mymail/', the correct syntax is: > ProxyPAss /mymail/ ! > although, given you other directives, why you have this one is a mystery. > > Also, your ProxyPass{,Reverse} directives aren't right: > > Proxy /mymail/ http://192.168.1..12:8080 > > This says 'when path begins '/mymail/', substitute '/mymail/' with > 'http://192.168.1..12:8080' and proxy to the resultant URL. > When you have a requested URI like '/mymail/kookie', it will attempt > to proxy to 'http://192.168.1..12:8080kookie' - this is what you asked > it to do. > > A simple rule I follow is to always keep the trailing '/' matching on > both arguments of ProxyPass and ProxyPassReverse - if one side has a > trailing '/', so should the other. > > Cheers > > Tom > First, thanks for both Tom and Eric for the prompt responses.
I have followed Eric's note and installed mod_proxy_html (don't know how I missed that!) I included the proxy_html.conf script that comes with the module in the conf/extras directory and Included it in the httpd.conf script. libxml2 is present on the system as noted in the tutorial and I skipped mod_xml2enc because I don't have an internationalization problem. That doesn't seem to be the issue at the moment. The startup log now says: [Mon Jun 07 21:55:32 2010] [notice] caught SIGTERM, shutting down [Mon Jun 07 21:55:43 2010] [notice] Apache/2.2.14 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.2.14 OpenSSL/0.9.8e-fips-rhel5 PHP/5.3.1 proxy_html/3.0.1 configured -- resuming normal operations so mod_proxy_html is really loaded, BUT apachectl -l does NOT show mod_proxy_html as being present. (Oddly, there is a similar error in that apachectl shows mod_status as compiled in but the apachectl status and fullstatus commands don't work). If I try to use either of the ProxyHTMLEnable On or ProxyHTMLURLMap directives apachectl -S still flags them as errors. The relevant part of the httpd.conf file is: # Default host <VirtualHost *:80> ServerName www.xxxxxxx.ca DocumentRoot /xxxxxx ProxyRequests off ProxyPass /mymail http://192.168.1.12:8080 ProxyPassReverse /mymail http://192.168.1.12:8080 ProxyHTMLEnable On <Location /mymail > ProxyHTMLURLMap / /mymail </Location> </VirtualHost> I followed your advice and the ProxyPass/ProxyPassReverse directives now all have no trailing / and the initial screen comes up properly. Just links fail due to the problems noted above. Tom: I deleted the [ ProxyPass /mymail/* ! ] command. What I was trying to do was prevent anyone from bypassing the login routine and trolling for user mail directories on, for example: /mymail/mail/george. This isn't a big issue, I can move the mail somewhere else. John --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
