Problems with local Redirection (on vhosts)

Hello,

I am having problems getting a local redirect working on my apache
installation... I am running a Plone server on port 8888 and PHP /
Apache / MySQL on port 80. I am now trying to get plone to work
through apache through redirects but it is not working... The problem
being that the vhost is giving 403 messages on any url I try to
redirect into.

I have been playing around with different combinations of
configurations for about a week - with no avail... Does anybody have
an idea what I am doing wrong?

Apache Version:
Apache/2.0.52 (Win32) mod_ssl/2.0.52 OpenSSL/0.9.7d PHP/5.0.2
from an xampp installation

Virtual Host Code:


NameVirtualHost *:80
#default
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName localhost
DocumentRoot "C:/webroot"
</VirtualHost>

#plone
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName www.myserver.co.uk
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^/(.*) http://localhost:8888/$1 [P]
</VirtualHost>

I have mod_proxy and mod_rewrite enabled, and have set default
directories to

<Directory />
Options All
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>

I'm sure it is something really simple but I can't work out the
problem whatsoever, any help is appreciated.

Best Regards,

Mark Starmer

Mark Starmer wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am having problems getting a local redirect working on my apache
> installation... I am running a Plone server on port 8888 and PHP /
> Apache / MySQL on port 80. I am now trying to get plone to work
> through apache through redirects but it is not working... The problem
> being that the vhost is giving 403 messages on any url I try to
> redirect into.
>
> I have been playing around with different combinations of
> configurations for about a week - with no avail... Does anybody have
> an idea what I am doing wrong?
>
> Apache Version:
> Apache/2.0.52 (Win32) mod_ssl/2.0.52 OpenSSL/0.9.7d PHP/5.0.2
> from an xampp installation
>
> Virtual Host Code:
>
>
> NameVirtualHost *:80
> #default
> <VirtualHost *:80>
> ServerName localhost
> DocumentRoot "C:/webroot"
> </VirtualHost>
>
> #plone
> <VirtualHost *:80>
> ServerName www.myserver.co.uk
> RewriteEngine On
> RewriteRule ^/(.*) http://localhost:8888/$1 [P]
> </VirtualHost>
>
> I have mod_proxy and mod_rewrite enabled, and have set default
> directories to
>
> <Directory />
> Options All
> AllowOverride All
> Order allow,deny
> Allow from all
> </Directory>
>
> I'm sure it is something really simple but I can't work out the
> problem whatsoever, any help is appreciated.
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Mark Starmer
I could be wrong, but i think the redirect your attempting remains
within Apache. It never exposes the request to other servers listening
on that port. What you probably need to do it redirect to a page that
sends a location header.
eg (using PHP)
within Rewrite stuff.. redirect to a file called (eg) redirect.php

redirect.php contains:

<?
header("Location: http://localhost:8888");
?>