On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 4:58 PM, Mark Montague <m...@catseye.org> wrote: > On April 20, 2011 18:43 , Joel Donahue <joel.donahu...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Is it possible to use Mod_Rewrite and apache in reverse proxy mode >> simultaneously? > >> <Directory /> >> RewriteEngine on >> RewriteBase / >> RewriteRule ^robots\.txt$ robots2.txt >> </Directory> >> >> ProxyPass / http://www.server2/ retry=0 >> ProxyPassReverse / http://www.server2/ >> ProxyPreserveHost On > > > Yes, but the <Directory> stanza applies to files that are being served from > the front-end server's filesystem. The rewrite rules you put in the > <Directory> stanza have no effect because the requests are being proxied, > not served from the filesystem. > > Move the RewriteEngine and RewriteRule directives out of the <Directory> > context and into the virtual host context with the ProxyPass directive. You > should also get rid of the RewriteBase directive and make the RewriteRule > directive operate on absolute (not relative) URLs, like this: > > RewriteRule ^/robots\.txt$ /robots2.txt > > -- > Mark Montague > m...@catseye.org > >
I just realized I wasn't replying to the list Here is the config that got it working thanks to Mark's suggestions <VirtualHost *.*.*.*:80> ServerName server1 ServerAlias server1 ProxyPass / server2/ retry=0 ProxyPassReverse / server2/ ProxyPreserveHost On RewriteEngine on RewriteRule ^/robots\.txt$ /robots2.txt [PT] </VirtualHost> --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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: users-unsubscr...@httpd.apache.org " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscr...@httpd.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@httpd.apache.org
