At 17:01 08/03/2002 +0000, Richard Barrett wrote:
At 10:09 08/03/2002 -0500, Zachery Bir wrote:
Just a word. Don't know if it's been brought up before, but mod_proxy, using the details on zope.org ( even though outdated ) like this:
NameVirtualHost 192.192.123.234
<VirtualHost 192.192.123.234> ServerName www.fightclub.org ServerAdmin tyler@fightclub.org
ProxyPass / http://zserver.xyz.com:9180/fightclub/ ProxyPassReverse / http://zserver.xyz.com:9180/fightclub/ ProxyPass /misc_ http://zserver.xyz.com:9180/misc_ ProxyPass /p_ http://zserver.xyz.com:9180/p_
</VirtualHost>
Will open up your server to be a Proxy server on the net.
No it doesn't.
You must turn ProxyRequests on for your server to become a a general-purpose-all-of-the-internet proxy server.
For ProxyPass to work you do not have to turn ProxyRequest on. Indeed in most cases when front-ending Zope with Apache you do not want to do that. And that instructions didn't say to do that.
As a generalisation, using mod_proxy is probably less resource demanding that using mod_rewrite and an entirely sensible choice in many cases.
I've found that this isn't the case with mod_rewrite and VirtualHostMonster.
Just in case anyone gets the wrong impression, using ProxyPass with the VirtualHostMonster works just as well as mod_rewrite. Afer all the [P] flag on the RewriteRule is only saying 'hand this substituted URL' off to the proxy module, which also has to be loaded into Apache. The advantage of using a RewriteRule instead of a ProxyPass is that a more complex match and substitution can be made on the requested URL. Often this isn't necessary so mod_proxy does a fine job; but I use either depending on circumstances.
Searching for "ProxyPass" on zope.org brings up a lot of documents, some that are fairly new.
Is this a known thing? First we found out was by looking at the log files of one of our servers and found tons of 'GET http://some.other.domain.com/path/to/porn HTTP/1.0' lines...
Now that we cleared it up with mod_rewrite, I'm wondering what the porn surfers are thinking when the hit this site all the time now :)
Zac
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