Apache ProxyPass

[yagran]

Hi. Im trying to set up a proxy to help me get around cross domain security issues im having.

I have a VPS from GoDaddy and its running Plesk on Windows 2000.

Following instructions at xml.com (link) I searched my server for the mod_proxy extension, which i found to be on the server, and then i searched for the httpd.conf file. I opened that up and added two lines of code:

ProxyPass    /call/    http://webservices.amazon.com/onca/xml/
ProxyPassReverse    http://webservices.amazon.com/onca/xml/

I restarted my server but my redirect doesnt seem to be working at all...

any idea what ive done wrong? thanks in advance

[angelwatt]

Aren't you missing the second argument on the ProxyPassReverse line? Not that I've ever used this. I just read a little here.

[yagran]

Originally Posted by angelwatt

Aren't you missing the second argument on the ProxyPassReverse line? Not that I've ever used this. I just read a little here.

Im not sure what second argument theres supposed to be? the example youve linked to suggests this:

Example:
Suppose the local server has address http://wibble.org/; then

ProxyPass /mirror/foo/ http://foo.com/
ProxyPassReverse /mirror/foo/ http://foo.com/

will not only cause a local request for the <http://wibble.org/mirror/foo/bar> to be internally converted into a proxy request to <http://foo.com/bar> (the functionality ProxyPass provides here). It also takes care of redirects the server foo.com sends: when http://foo.com/bar is redirected by him to http://foo.com/quux Apache adjusts this to http://wibble.org/mirror/foo/quux before forwarding the HTTP redirect response to the client.

which seems to indicate that my code is correct. no?

[angelwatt]

Originally Posted by yagran

Im not sure what second argument theres supposed to be? the example youve linked to suggests this:

which seems to indicate that my code is correct. no?

# The Example
ProxyPass /mirror/foo/ http://foo.com/
ProxyPassReverse /mirror/foo/ http://foo.com/

# Yours
ProxyPass    /call/    http://webservices.amazon.com/onca/xml/
ProxyPassReverse  <something/missing/here>  http://webservices.amazon.com/onca/xml/

They have the /mirror/foo/ where you have empty space. That's what I was getting at.

[yagran]

Originally Posted by angelwatt

# The Example
ProxyPass /mirror/foo/ http://foo.com/
ProxyPassReverse /mirror/foo/ http://foo.com/

# Yours
ProxyPass    /call/    http://webservices.amazon.com/onca/xml/
ProxyPassReverse  <something/missing/here>  http://webservices.amazon.com/onca/xml/

They have the /mirror/foo/ where you have empty space. That's what I was getting at.

Thankyou will try that now! IM SO STUPID!