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Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2003 10:45:42 -0500
From: "Jeff Cohen" <lists@gej-it.com>
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Subject: RE: [users@httpd] Rewriting / proxy problem

If Owen said it should work then listen to him.
Jeff Cohen

-----Original Message-----
From: Felix Planjer <Felix.Planjer@YellowRed.nl>
To: users@httpd.apache.org
Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2003 09:18:29 +0100
Subject: RE: [users@httpd] Rewriting / proxy problem

> Can someone confirm/deny that apache will always use DNS, and not the
> hosts
> file?
> Is there any way I can make this situation work?
> 
> thanks,
> 
> Felix
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Boyle Owen [mailto:Owen.Boyle@swx.com]
> > Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2003 3:15 PM
> > To: users@httpd.apache.org
> > Subject: RE: [users@httpd] Rewriting / proxy problem
> >
> >
> > Plain text please...
> >
> > Check out http://httpd.apache.org/docs/dns-caveats.html - it looks
> like
> > apache will use DNS no matter what nsswitch.conf says. So you'll
> always
> > get a loop with this setup...
> >
> > Rgds,
> > Owen Boyle
> > Disclaimer: Any disclaimer attached to this message may be ignored.
> >
> > >  -----Original Message-----
> > > From: 	Felix Planjer [mailto:Felix.Planjer@YellowRed.nl]
> > > Sent:	Mittwoch, 26. M�rz 2003 14:57
> > > To:	users@httpd.apache.org
> > > Subject:	[users@httpd] Rewriting / proxy problem
> > >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I'm running RedHat Linux 8.0 with Apache 2.0.40. I'm trying to
> achieve
> > the following:
> > >
> > > We have a website with an external addres:
> > mysite.mydomain.com/somepath/.
> > > Since the "somepath" part is not running on our main server, we
> need
> > to proxy the url to another machine (on our intranet). BUT the
> hostname
> > in the proxied request should be the same as the hostname on the
> outside
> > (due to some bad coding on the site, which I have no control over).
> > >
> > > To accomplish this I added a line to the /etc/hosts file:
> > > 	192.168.100.39 mysite.mydomain.com
> > > So it overrules the dns lookup of mysite.mydomain.com (which
> resolves
> > to the external address)
> > >
> > > And added the following in our httpd.conf (inside the default
> virtual
> > host):
> > > 	RewriteRule ^/somepath(.*) http://mysite.mydomain.com/somepath$1
> > [P]
> > >
> > > The weird thing is, that it then proxies to the apache server
> instead
> > of the internal server. I get a proxy loop errors and see in the logs
> > that there are a lot of requests coming in from the machines own ip
> > address.
> > >
> > > To verify the use of the etc/hosts file I added this entry to the
> > hosts file:
> > > 	192.168.100.39 dummyname
> > >
> > > And replaced the FQDN in the rewrite rule with dummyname. This made
> > the proxy'ing work but the site wasn't working because the hostname
> was
> > wrong.
> > >
> > > It seems that mod_rewrite are resolving from dns first, and if that
> > fails from the /etc/hosts file. I expect it to be the other way
> around.
> > In the host.conf I have: order hosts,bind. BTW I get the same issues
> > when using ProxyPass instead of te rewriterules
> > >
> > > Can someone explain this or give me a solution?
> > >
> > >
> > > Felix Planjer
> > >  << File: ATT196728.txt >>
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