Mazhar Malik wrote:
Hi,
We are in the process of evaluating Active4D for one of our projects.
One of the questions we have is regarding proxy rewrite. Searching
list archive gives me ways to proxy/rewrite from Apache or 4DWebSTAR
to 4D/Active4D, but I couldn't find other way around. i.e from
4D/Active4D to Apache or 4DWebSTAR. So my first question is that is it
possible to proxy/rewrite URL in a way that when endusers send
requests to Active 4D, the actual response comes from Apache and the
URL is hidden from enduses?
Thanks in advance.
mazhar
Mazhar,
If you send the request to Apache and have it proxy to Active4D,
depending on how your rewrite rules are written the user may never know
that Active4D was involved.
When you say 'URL is hidden from enduses', I assume you don't want to
reveal details like "index.a4d?action=view&type=products&id=1234"?
Instead the user would use a URL like:
www.myapacheserver.com/view/products/1234
that would seemlessly display the content at
www.myapacheserver.com:8080/index.a4d?action=view&type=products&id=1234
Apache's rewrite module (and WebSTAR's too) can do this for you. The
messages you found in the list archive should provide some hints on how
to do that.
Or am I misunderstanding what you want to do? Since 4D/Active4D doesn't
have a proxy module you can't go the other way.
You can use Active4D to redirect to another Apache server where if you
were to access
www.mya4dserver.com/index.a4d?action=view&type=products&id=1234
You could have Active4D redirect to
www.myapacheserver.com/view/products/1234
but that doesn't hide the implementation details from the end user.
-- Brad
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