Question about rewrite rule and proxypass for http-bind and URL

shaselai · 02-25-2011, 11:18 AM

I am trying to setup http-bind and from some virtual hosts i see:
Servername myserver
RewriteRule /http-bind/ http://localhost/index.html [P]
ProxyPass /http-bind http://127.0.0.1:8080/http-bind/

When I go to myserver/http-bind/ I get to see a partially working index.html but the URL on firefox is still myserver/http-bind/ <- is this normal or the address should change into http"127.0.0.1:8080/http-bind/ or http://localhost/index.html ?

bathory · 02-26-2011, 04:48 AM

Hi,

It's normal. This is how rewrite with the proxy flag [P] works. From apache mod_rewrite documentation:

Quote:

'proxy|P' (force proxy)
This flag forces the substitution part to be internally sent as a proxy request and immediately (rewrite processing stops here) put through the proxy module. You must make sure that the substitution string is a valid URI (typically starting with http://hostname) which can be handled by the Apache proxy module. If not, you will get an error from the proxy module. Use this flag to achieve a more powerful implementation of the ProxyPass directive, to map remote content into the namespace of the local server.

Note: mod_proxy must be enabled in order to use this flag.

Add the trailing slash in the proxied URI and see if index.html works

Code:

ProxyPass /http-bind/ http://127.0.0.1:8080/http-bind/