Comments on: Apache: Forwarding Requests to Another Server

By: Tim

Tim — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 18:53:31 +0000

Screw auto HTML stripping. The “[Proxy *]” directive.

By: Tim

Tim — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 18:52:47 +0000

“Also, the directive* isn’t going…”

Oops! I meant that the “” directory isn’t going to let anything through.

By: Tim

Tim — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 18:51:38 +0000

Yep, mod_proxy_http is also required. mod_proxy is the dependency module, but mod_proxy_http is what lets this magic happen. Otherwise I get an internal server error for the configuration, that there were no valid proxies defined for the match.

Also, the directive isn’t going to let anything through with that “Deny from all”. With the configuration given above, all I got was denial of access messages for the paths I was requesting. Instead, you’ve got to open it up to allow stuff. “Allow from all” seems to be safe since this is a “reverse” proxy, which is the desired behavior of a front-end to access multiple servers behind the magic curtain.

After that, everything comes together nicely.

By: j1nn

j1nn — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 19:27:13 +0000

thanks for the tips.
however, I need a small addition in order to make this work:
a2enmod proxy_http after all the above.

hope it will help someone