Boo :)
After some fiddling around I came to the following config (excerpt of important parts):
8<-----------------
LoadModule proxy_module /usr/local/libexec/apache/libproxy.so
ProxyRequests Off
CacheRoot /usr/local/www/proxy
CacheSize 5
CacheGcInterval 4
CacheMaxExpire 24
CacheLastModifiedFactor 666.0
CacheDefaultExpire 1
ProxyPass /other/ http://box2/other/
ProxyPassReverse /other/ http://box2/other/
-------------------->8
This allows access to the /other/ dir through box1, though the dir actually resides on
box2...
Box1 is running an Apache 1.3.19+IPv6 on FreeBSD.
The following questions arise:
- The CacheRoot dir contains mangled filenames, could these be non-mangled, preserving
their original names and path so I could put them into the /other/ dir effectively
mirroring on-demand... see also point 3...
- It also caches it correctly, except for some non-static files... which headers are
required to make sure a file will be cached into the cache?
- Whenever I turn off box2, box1 will start spitting 502's (Bad gateway - proxy error)
because it can't contact box2.
Is there a fallback to serve directly from the cache (at least the data it has... the
rest should 404... ) ?
NOTE: This last thing will also probably happen with all the apache.org mirror's
around the world using the:
8<-----------
ProxyPass / http://www.apache.org/
CacheDefaultExpire 24
------------->8
Method as described on http://www.apache.org/info/how-to-mirror.html...
Greets,
Jeroen
