Re: [users@httpd] apache revealing the hostname of backend tomcat server.

[Igor Cicimov]

On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 10:44 PM, Amol Puglia <amolcpug...@yahoo.com> wrote:

> Hello Team,
>
> I am redirecting request from apache to backend server tomcat using
> mod_proxy_balancer.
>
> The request is getting redirected but url is getting converted to backend
> server url.
>
> For example :-
>
> If apache web server url is http:\\server and backend server url is
> http:\\serverA.
>
> when i access url http:\\server the request is redirecting to
> http:\\serverA but url is also getting changed and in browser it is showing
> http:\\serverA.
>
> Kindly help me to resolve this issue.
>

You need ProxyPassReverse in that case. Example

<Location /tomcats/app1/>
     ProxyPass balancer://tomcats/app1/ stickysession=jssesionid|JSESSIONID
nofailover=On lbmethod=byrequests
     ProxyPassReverse balancer://tomcats/app1/
     Order Deny,Allow
     Allow from all
</Location>