Rewrite Rule & Proxy help

I've got two servers ... The first www.domain.com is hosted by an
apache server. It handles static content. The second, secure.domain.com
is hosted on a different server (using port 8080) and handles dynamic
client stuff.

What'd I'd like to do is the following:

Any files ending in .html would be served by the apache server. But,
when a link is clicked like "www.domain.com/login.a4d", I'd like user
to see the page served from the second server who's "real" url would be
"secure.domain.com/login.a4d". The user, of course doesn't see
"secure", though. They would still see "www".

Would RewriteRules accomplish this? I've tried things like this below,
but can't seem to get it.

Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^/(.*\.a4[d|p])$ http://secure.domain.com:8080/$1 [P,L]

Actually, when I use the rule above it does work if I don't include the
[P], but then the user sees the url that it's being rewritten to,
"http://secure.domain.com/login.a4d" instead of
"http://www.domain.com/login.a4d".

Does this mean that my hosting provider doesn't have the proxy module
enabled?

Thanks,

Darin

djschroeder wrote:
> Does this mean that my hosting provider doesn't have the proxy module
> enabled?

I think yes. But you should be some error if you use the P-Flag, at
least on some versions of apache respond with a 403 forbidden, the newer
ones will create an error.log entry, too, I think.
You might check the RewriteLog, if you can enable it (only in server
conntext).

--
Robert

Thanks for the fast reply ...

I think my hosting provider doesn't do it. I tried a simple proxypass
and it failed as well.

Now to find a new host...