On Mon, 30 Oct 2000, Kermit Tensmeyer wrote:
> ProxyPassReverse works as described and modifies
> the Location header. Is there something else that
> will filter/translate included URL's?
>
> For example
> ProxyPass /product/itemA/
> http://modperl.internal.com/root/service/path/mason/
> ProxyPass /product/itemB/
> http://websphere.internal.com/content/product/information/
>
> ProxyPass /customer/Service/
> http://iis.internal.com/inetpub//ASP/customer/
>
> Will translate on the way in and the equiv ProxyPassReverse
> will modify the Location for the proxied pages going out. What
> methods of others used on the Light Server to modify the urls
> generated by pages on the backend servers to resemble
> http://external.server.com/product/itemB/faq.shtml ?
You need to either use relative URLs or make the back-end server generate
correct fully-qualified URLs that point to the front-end. If the back-end
server is not under your control, you will have to use some kind of
search/replace on the front-end. On a heavy traffic site this would most
likely need to be done as a hack to mod_proxy. (Apache 2 will solve this
sort of problem using filter modules.)
- Perrin
