Apache Proxy Configuration

[Mikal]

Hi,

Hopefully someone can help me get moving in the right direction. I'm trying to configure an Apache server to act as a proxy for another web server. The server behind Apache does not support SSL so I need the clients to go to the Apache server using https and then have the Apache server forward to the http port on the other web server.

I've played around with the ProxyPass directives, but I can only get as far as the initial logon screen then things start to fall apart. Is there a simple way to simply forward between the 2 servers? The Apache server can be dedicated to acting as a proxy, and the backend server is dedicated to a specific application, so they configuration could almost be like a hardwired connect between the 2. If that makes any sense...

Thanks in advance!

[jdMorgan]

Mikal,

Welcome to WebmasterWorld!

The LoadModule order of mod_proxy and mod_auth may be causing problems for you if you are using a pre-Apache 2.0 server -- that is, if you are getting unexpected authorization requests.

Hopefully, someone who's done this before will stop by...
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Jim

[Mikal]

Thanks for the reply Jim. I thought this would be fairly simple, but maybe I haven't explained it very well.

Temporarily I'm using an open source product that provides this functionality, but I really need to use Apache for this. We did this at a company I used to work for, but I wasn't the one that actually set it up.

Just need to proxy the non-ssl server behind the Apache server's https.