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Devnull
Asked: 2009-07-23 12:08:30 +0800 CST

Apache reverse proxying for multiple URIs

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When using apache to reverse proxy, is it possible to forward http://somesite.com/ and http://somesite.com/foo to different servers? Say one goes to http://internalserver1/ and the other goes to http://internalserver2/foo

I can obviously just drop further down the path (ie http://somesite/bar) but its not desirable.

apache-2.2 reverse-proxy

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  1. Best Answer

    it seems that order of directives in your vhost is important. and yes - you can achieve what you need. i just run test for:

    ProxyPass /q http://host.one.com/img/
ProxyPass / http://another.host/

    and it worked fine - all requests [ except those directed to /q/something ] ware proxied to another.host. those for /q/whatever - went to host.one.com

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  2. You should be able to do this using mod_rewrite. It evaluates conditions in order and you can specify the [L] flag to make it stop processing further rules.

    RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule /foo/(.*) http://internalserver2/foo/$1 [P,L]
RewriteRule /(.*)     http://internalserver/$1 [P]

    Full mod_rewrite documentation is at http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mod_rewrite.html

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