Hi list, I have been wrestling on and off with this problem for multiple years. I had some time to spare today, so I looked into it once again, but can seem to make any progress.
Basically I want to accomplish the following: on a webpage (connected to the public internet, but behind a login page) I offer a list of devices that are on an internal network. The model and brand of these devices vary. I need to create a link for each device, so that apache proxies requests for those devices. Currently I use the following path: /dev/x.x.x.x/ and the following proxy configuration: <Proxy *> Order deny,allow Allow from all </Proxy> # put /dev/ in front of every redirect you get from every host ProxyPassReverse /dev/ http:// RewriteEngine on #RewriteLog /var/log/httpd/rewrite.log #RewriteLogLevel 8 <Directory /usr/local/astium/web/html> RewriteEngine on RewriteRule ^dev/([0-9.]*)/(.*) http://$1/$2 [P] </Directory> I created this config several years ago, but it is seriously lacking. html/javascript links are not replaced, and absolute paths returned by the device make the browser lose track. Using proxy_html, and can fix the inline links, but the fact that the backend hostname is not fixed, but dynamic makes things complicated. I found http://www.apachetutor.org/admin/reverseproxies, which offered: ProxyRequests off ProxyPass /app1/ http://internal1.example.com/ ProxyHTMLURLMap http://internal1.example.com /app1 <Location /app1/> ProxyPassReverse / ProxyHTMLEnable On ProxyHTMLURLMap / /app1/ RequestHeader unset Accept-Encoding </Location> But I do not know how to map this to a backend with a variable address. For example I might be able to use LocationMatch, but how do I reference the matched ipaddress in the Location Directive in the ProxyHTMLURLMap? Good anyone give me some ideas how to approach this? Thanks very much, Ron Arts