RE: HTTP Hostname for reverse proxy

You could 'lie' to the apache server by overriding DNS with an entry in
/etc/hosts. This is how one rev proxies for Exchange2000 OWA.


-----Original Message-----
From: Manon Goo [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Thursday, February 13, 2003 9:29 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: HTTP Hostname for reverse proxy




--On Mittwoch, 12. Februar 2003 18:37 Uhr +0200 Graham Leggett 
<[email protected]> wrote:

> Manon Goo wrote:
>
>> Is there any possibility to tell the realserver whct the hostname is 
>> ?
>
> What do you mean by "real server" and "hostname"?

I want that reverse proxy connects to "real server"  and sends:

GET /bla/bla HTTP/1.1
HOST: hostname

I would like to configure modproxy that it does nots send
the host part of the url in the ProxyPass line but someting different.


>
>> I want to use ProxyPass /x http://10.1.1.1/
>>
>> but I want to send "backendserver" in the HTTP Header to the host
>
> Use the "Header" directive to add arbitrary headers in the response to

> the browser.
>
> If you want the backend server to know the IP address of the browser, 
> look for the X-Forwarded-For header.
>
> Regards,
> Graham
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