Reverse Proxy for domain-name

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I'm trying to setup Apache as a reverse proxy for a domain-name. It should redirect to an application running on a Apache Tomcat server

i'm using the following configuration:

<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerName sub.domain.com
    ProxyPass / http://localhost:8080/application/
    ProxyPassReverse / http://localhost:8080/application/
    ProxyPreserveHost On
</VirtualHost>

However when I go to http://sub.domain.com it results in an endless loop of http redirects. It also automatically adds the subdirectory to the url. http://sub.domain.com changes in http://sub.domain.com/application/

Does anyone know how to solve this?

Ozzie

Posted 2013-06-17T16:18:03.800

Reputation: 121

Answers

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I think you probably want to disable ProxyPreserveHost as it keeps passing the old host, which unless you have a good reason to do so, isn't recommended.

NickW

Posted 2013-06-17T16:18:03.800

Reputation: 1 029

When i disable ProxyPreserveHost something causes the application to only show me the login page. No matter what address I visit it always shows the login page. This could be an error in the application. – Ozzie – 2013-06-17T16:25:16.563

That it could be... the other thing I was going to recommend is putting a line like this: ProxyPass http://localhost:8080/ ! to see if stopping the redirect when you actually get to the page helps.. – NickW – 2013-06-17T16:26:51.540

You may also want to use the ProxyPassReverseCookieDomain to ensure the cookies get the right domain in them for your login. – NickW – 2013-06-17T16:51:37.487

I fixed it by just deploying my application in tomcat's root so i don't have the issues with the subdirectories. But thanks for the help! – Ozzie – 2013-06-17T17:32:37.900

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