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FrVaBe
FrVaBe

Reputation: 49341

Retain original request URL on mod_proxy redirect

I am running a WebApplication on a Servlet Container (port 8080) in an environment that can be accessed from the internet (external) and from company inside (intenal), e.g.

http://external.foo.bar/MyApplication
http://internal.foo.bar/MyApplication

The incomming (external/internal) requests are redirected to the servlet container using an apache http server with mod_proxy. The configuration looks like this:

ProxyPass /MyApplication http://localhost:8080/MyApplication retry=1 acquire=3000 timeout=600 Keepalive=On
ProxyPassReverse /MyApplication http://localhost:8080/MyApplication

I am now facing the problem that some MyApplication responses depend on the original request URL. Concrete: a WSDL document will be provided with a element that has a schemaLocation="<RequestUrl>?xsd=MyApplication.xsd" element.

With my current configuration it always looks like

<xs:import namespace="..." schemaLocation="http://localhost:8080/MyApplication?xsd=MyApplication.xsd"/>

but it should be

External Request: <xs:import namespace="..." schemaLocation="http://external.foo.bar/MyApplication?xsd=MyApplication.xsd"/>
Internal Request: <xs:import namespace="..." schemaLocation="http://internal.foo.bar/MyApplication?xsd=MyApplication.xsd"/>

I suppose this is a common requirement. But as I am no expert in configuration of the apache http server and its modules I would be glad if someone could give some (detailed) help.

Thanks in advance!

Upvotes: 24

Views: 49851

Answers (3)

jCoder
jCoder

Reputation: 2319

If you're running Apache >= 2.0.31 then you might try to set the ProxyPreserveHost directive as described here.

This should pass the original Host header trough mod_proxy into your application, and normally the request URL will be rebuild there (in your Servlet container) using the Host header, so the schema location should be build using the host and path infos from "before" the proxy.

(Posted here too for the sake of completeness)

Upvotes: 28

ricosrealm
ricosrealm

Reputation: 1636

Here is another alternative if you would like to retain both the original host name and the proxied host name.

If you are using mod_proxy disable ProxyPreserveHost in the Apache configuration. For most proxy servers, including mod_proxy, read the X-Forwarded-Host header in your application. This identifies the original Host header provided by the HTTP request.

You can read about the headers mod_proxy (and possible other standard proxy servers) set here:

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mod_proxy.html

Upvotes: 7

Seth Robertson
Seth Robertson

Reputation: 31441

You should be able to do a mod_rewrite in apache to encode the full URL as a query parameter, or perhaps part of the fragment. How easy this might be depends on whether you might use one or the other as part of your incoming queries.

For example, http://external.foo.bar/MyApplication might get rewritten to http://external.foo.bar/MyApplication#rewritemagic=http://external.foo.bar/MyApplication which then gets passed into the ProxyPass and then stripped out.

A bit of a hack, yes, and perhaps a little tricky to get rewrite and proxy to work in the right order and not interfere with each other, but it seems like it should work.

Upvotes: 1

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