Hi josh, thanks for your reply. I agree with your synopsis that it will be best to specify the static content directories explicitly and then just proxy everything. It just means that if they add any more static content directories then i'll have to add them to the exceptions list.
cheers for your help Steve -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Joshua Slive Sent: 20 March 2007 17:40 To: users@httpd.apache.org Subject: Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Serving local static content but proxying all others. On 3/20/07, Foster, Stephen (ASPIRE) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am happy with the ability to setup mod_proxy but i don't want to maintain a > list of URI's to be proxied in my apache configuration, likewise i don't want > to have to re-configure apache if the developers add new directories or > content types to the DocumentRoot directory. > Is it possible to configure apache to serve content if it exists locally but > if not to proxy it to a proxy server. I am basically trying to make the > apache configuration as static as we possibly can but flexible enought do > differentiate between local content and what is has to proxy. Yes, you can do this using mod_rewrite. But it is complicated and involves checking the local filesystem on every request. But I would highly recommend just setting aside one directory as being local and excluding it from the ProxyPass: ProxyPass /local ! and then proxying everything else. Alternatively, proxy everything, including the static content, but make sure it has proper cache-control headers and use mod_disk_cache on the proxy to eliminate the speed hit. Joshua. --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] " from the digest: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] " from the digest: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
