We have used quite much apache as frontend machine
where mod_proxy + 'ProxyPass' has been very important feature.
There is one thing that is too difficult with ProxyPass.
I have situation.
Where I want someting like
/ ==> http://other-host/
/some-images/ ==> keep local.
I want to say to mod_proxy that proxypass everything EXCEPT that(and that)
to given host.
My medicine is to add some lines of code to every new version of apache.
(to mod_proxy.c)
Now I can write somehing like:
ProxyPass /some-images/ !
ProxyPass / http://other-host/
Where '!' means that given uri is not proxied but kept local.
It makes much simpler to make some proxy-rules.
Same can be done with mod_rewrite.... but that is more complicated.
HOW:
I just add some code to mod_proxy.c - function
static int proxy_trans(request_rec *r)
....next patch is to Apache 2.0 - httpd-2_0_27/modules/proxy/
Jukka Pihl
jukka.pihl at entirem.com
-------------------- PATCH --------------------
--- mod_proxy.c.orig Fri Nov 9 16:11:14 2001
+++ mod_proxy.c Fri Nov 9 16:16:04 2001
@@ -188,6 +188,9 @@
len = alias_match(r->uri, ent[i].fake);
if (len > 0) {
+ if((ent[i].real[0] == '!') && (ent[i].real[1] == 0))
+ return DECLINED;
+
r->filename = apr_pstrcat(r->pool, "proxy:", ent[i].real,
(r->uri + len - 1), NULL);
r->handler = "proxy-server";
