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> Forgive me if this is the wrong newsgroup or if this information is readily
> available in a manual somewhere. I'm not really sure where to start
> looking.
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> I've got the following ibmproxy.conf line to (reverse) proxy external
> requests to an internal IHS/WebSphere server:
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> Proxy /id/* http://<internal_server>/id/*
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> Where my internal server has a WebSphere application with a context root of
> "/id/lookup/".
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> Requests to http://<cache_server/id/lookup/ work as expected. However,
> requests to http://<cache_server>/id/lookup without the trailing slash get
> redirected (I think by IHS) to http://<internal_server>/id/lookup/ (with the
> trailing slash, but with the internal server name), which is obviously not
> good.
>
> Anyone know a way around this? Or have I needlessly complicated something
> that has a simpler solution? Thanks.

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> Doug wrote:
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> The internal_server needs to use a server name that is the same as the

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> hostname, i.e. if your server is www.example.com, then the host name

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> on the backend internal_server should say www.example.com, not

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> "Klaus Johannes Rusch" <KlausRusch@atmedia.net> wrote in message
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> Hmmmm... I could see where that would be one way to solve my problem, but
> the <internal_server> is on a whole different subnet (behind a firewall), so
> it can't use the name of the <cache_server>. Or am I misunderstanding you?
>
> Doug
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> What Klaus is suggesting you do is change the ServerName parameter in
> the IHS config file to be <cache_server>. This does not mean
> reconfiguring your hostname - just the IHS conf.
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> That's what I thought, but I thought IHS wouldn't allow a ServerName that it
> really isn't bound to.
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> Also, if that same IHS is used for multiple server names (which is fairly
> likely), this wouldn't solve everything.
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> "Adrian" <barftud@redbrick.dcu.ie> wrote in message
> news:b7eo7g$3s7s$1@news.boulder.ibm.com...
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> For your first point, IHS definitely lets you set ServerName to a
> hostname other than it's DNS name... that's what it's there for:
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> http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/mo...html#servername

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> For the second point, that's what Virtual Hosts are for:
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> http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/vhosts/

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