Re: Apache 2.0 - Reverse Proxy and / or Mod_Rewrite Question

> http://my.server.com (Reverse Proxy Server) - enter user id and
> password
>
> Result - http://my.realserver.com/mail/user.n...ment&ui=inotes.
>
> The ReverseProxyServer is lost at this point and the user is working
> directly with the "real" Notes server, which is what we don't want.
>
>
> Question:
>
> Is there a Mod_Rewrite statement that covers everything sent to a
> domain, regardless of the path that is returned?

most probably mod_rewrite won't help here as it operates on requests
and not responses.

things to do:

- find out how the user is taken to his mailbox after login, main
options are http status 30x aka real redirect or funny games with
meta-refresh or javascript

- if it's a real redirect, it _should_ be possible to fix it with a
ProxyPassReverse statement matching the self-referential url exactly

- another option is to fool the notes server into thinking it's called
my.server.com instead of my.realserver.com, that way the
self-referential url's will always point to the proxy - don't ask me
what the equivalent of ServerName is under notes, though...

- the shotgun-debugging method:

LoadModule ext_filter_module
/usr/lib/apache2/modules/mod_ext_filter.so
ExtFilterDefine fixit mode=output intype=text/html cmd="/bin/sed \
s/http:\/\/my.realserver.com/http:\/\/my.server.com/g"
SetOutputFilter fixit

which will replace all occurences of http://my.realserver.com in all
output with http://my.server.com - more refined methods are certainly
advised here, also the performance impact of mod_ext_filter is
considerable and might be too much for a busy prod site.

- there's a third-party module by Nick Kew called mod_proxy_html which
does the above in a way which might be better suited to busy sites -
it's available under GPL which i hope won't spark a discussion on the
compatibility of GPL and apche license...

good luck,

joachim