cloudfront infront of elb and proxypreservehost

Question

i have apache config in ec2 instance as:

        RewriteEngine On 
        ProxyPreserveHost On 
        ProxyRequests On 
        ProxyPass /blog http://212.128.122.142/blog

this works until i point my dns record to ELB but not if i change my DNS to point at CDN. either i get 502 or redirect loop.

I also tried rewrite rule as i saw 502 bad gateway was because CDN tries to access as myendpoint.elb.amazonaws.com/blog and that wont be served by Apache, so, i changed so that apache accepts orgin endpoint as serverAlias and rewrite cond to rewrite url back to original hostname, and passing it to IP with proxypreserve.

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^(www\.)?mydomain\.com
        RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^myendpoint.elb.amazonaws.com$
        RewriteRule ^/blog http://mydomain/blog[R,L]

(i need to access /blog from different server hosted with same domain. And as mentioned above it all works until ELB is pointed to DNS Record but stops on CDN any heads up?)

What i am trying to achieve: host /blog in different server having this all working with cloudfront in top of ELB

Looks like you want Apache to act as a Reverse Proxy in which case you should ideally have `ProxyRequests` set to Off and you also need a `ProxyPassReverse /test http://212.128.122.142/test` line. But its still not really clear what you are trying to accomplish here. — Vivek Thomas, Jul 10 '14 at 12:45
hey thanks for response, this would also lead to redirect loop: trying to host /blog in different server rather than subdomain [but due to the type of application cloudfront has to be in top of everything] — tike, Jul 10 '14 at 12:53

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 11 '14 at 12:40

I am answering my own question, so other can benefit from; Initially i thought this was issue with cloud-front and its mechanism. It turns out to be:

[After enabling loggin in both elb and cloudfront, i saw that]

If you point your domain to cloud-front, and cloud-front having origin as ELB [load balancer] it sends request to respective EC2 Instances, and your request for example.com would not go as example.com rather it will go as endpoint:

cloud-front will send that request to elb as orginpoint so your url will be myendpoint.elb.amazonaws.com rather than example.com and it will request for myendpoint.elb.amazonaws.com:80/blog, And main problem here was another reverse proxy that is siting infront of my blog server which couldn't understand the request, because nginx in that reverse proxy was configured to reject non-specified domains * to serve as 444.

After that i didnt need rewritecond and rule as proxy pass would handle it happy :)

cloudfront infront of elb and proxypreservehost

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