(for simplicity I changed IPs of Apache server to 1.1.1.1 and Gollum server to 6.6.6.6)
I'm trying to serve a Gollum wiki with rack through Apache (since it has SSL set up properly and I'm currently only testing the Gollum wiki). So I setup Apache to ProxyPass (config below).
The problem is that the rack server seems to be working fine when I access it directly via a curl from my proxy machine:
1.1.1.1 - - [05/Dec/2013 06:20:25] "GET /docs/Home HTTP/1.1" 200 6467 0.2135
but I get a 404 whenever I try to use my browser. Rackup says:
6.6.6.6 - - [05/Dec/2013 06:20:00] "GET /docs/Home HTTP/1.1" 404 - 0.0006
Absurdly, when I use the exact same headers as my browser sends (see below) via telnet from the proxy machine (1.1.1.1) the request is successful:
6.6.6.6 - - [05/Dec/2013 06:19:19] "GET /docs/Home HTTP/1.1" 200 6467 0.2759
I have no idea what I'm doing wrong and why (and how?!) rack differentiates between two different requests from the same machine. Help please?
(Using Apache/2.2.15 on RHEL 5 and Rack 1.2 (Release: 1.5) on ruby 1.9.2p320, RHEL 6)
EDIT Apparently this is a problem with WEBrick, since when I switch to Thin it worked. Would still like your insights...
Apache config:
<VirtualHost 1.1.1.1:80>
ServerName testserver.example.org
ServerAlias testserver.example.org
ServerAdmin webmaster@example.org
DocumentRoot /path/to/my/docs
DirectoryIndex index.html index.htm index.php
# ...
<Location /docs/>
ProxyPass http://6.6.6.6:8080/docs/
# also tried:
# ProxyPass http://rackserver.example.org:8080/docs/
# and:
# SetEnv force-proxy-request-1.0 1
# SetEnv proxy-nokeepalive 1
</Location>
</VirtualHost>
Telnetted request:
<1>root@testserver:~$ telnet rackserver.example.org 8080
Trying 6.6.6.6...
Connected to rackserver.example.org.
Escape character is '^]'.
GET /docs/Home HTTP/1.1
ACCEPT: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/webp,*/*;q=0.8
ACCEPT_ENCODING: gzip,deflate,sdch
ACCEPT_LANGUAGE: en-US,en;q=0.8,he;q=0.6
CACHE_CONTROL: max-age=0
COOKIE: SESS...; has_js=1
HOST: rackserver.example.org:8080
USER_AGENT: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/31.0.1650.57 Safari/537.36
VERSION: HTTP/1.1
X_FORWARDED_FOR: 6.6.6.6
X_FORWARDED_HOST: apacheserver.example.org
X_FORWARDED_SERVER: testserver.example.org
I verified that the rack up prints the same output for the normal browser request and the telnetted request using the code from this answer.