Hi, My setup is rather complex for a simple web server, but let me try explaining it:
Squid is listening on port 80 of my IP address, configured as a non-caching httpd accelerator. It's main purpose is to be one single access point to two apaches: One on the same maching, the other on another machine. The distinction between the two servers is done based on the domain name used (I couldn't do this using DNS, due to the network structure). The Apache on the same machine is listening on port 80 of 127.0.0.1 and serves a few name based virtual hosts. Now what I want to do is have one virtual host (vhosts.mindmatters.de) that is used to connect to a tomcat server: JkMount / ajp13 ajp13:vhosts.mindmatters.de:8009 JkMount /* ajp13 ajp13:vhosts.mindmatters.de:8009 Now I want to let other virtual hosts access the tomcat mounts. Let's say I have a virtual host thomas.mindmatters.de and all requests should be sent to an application "thomas" deployed on tomcat. I'd like to configure this using a .htaccess file in the document root of this host (so that changes to the redirection can be done by the user without reloading apache's configuration): RewriteEngine on RewriteRule ^(.*) http://vhosts.mindmatters.de/thomas/$1 [P] But with this, I get an error from squid saying that the access is denied for http://127.0.0.1/thomas/. What this seems to do: I access thomas.mindmatters.de, which lets apache's mod_proxy module issue a request on vhosts.mindmatters.de/thomas. This goes to squid again and tries to fetch it. But the request to squid must be different thatn the request I'd send when accessing vhosts.mindmatters.de/thomas directly, since it doesn't go through. First I thought, this error might occur because apache doesn't change the Host header of the HTTP request to vhosts.mindmatters.de (so that squid and apache are able to analyse it properly), but it does. Any hints on how I could achieve this? Thank you very much. Oh, and redirects and authentication requests should be handled transparently as well without exposing the domain of host2 to the client! :) Regards, Thomas PS - I think, tomcat or squid aren't the problem, it's just that I'm proxying a name based virtual host from another name based virtual host on the same machine/apache. Are there any known problems and workarounds for this?
