[clug-talk] Apache and mod_rewrite tips?

[Gustin Johnson]

You could put an index page on https://myapp.myorg.com that has links 
to various
apps that are accessed via https://myapp.myorg.com/whateverapp

For now that index page could just redirect 
https://myapp.myorg.com/whateverapp
as well.
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Quoting Shawn <sgrover at open2space.com>:

> Thanks to all who helped out.  I was able to get this running properly.
>
> I gave in on one issue which ended up resolving the problem for me.  Instead
> of using http://myapp.myorg.com, I ended up doing
> http://myapp.myorg.com/myapp (note the trailing directory).  Then I simply
> needed a ProxyPass to redirect to the correct server and tweak my app to use
> the external server name internally.  We initially didn't want to use the
> trailing directory, but management has changed it's mind and feel that doing
> so buys us more flexibility with regards to other apps they want to make
> available.  (Such as AutoDesk's MapGuide).
>
> So, out of all that, I was able to just remove the rewrite rules I had been
> trying and only use the ProxyPass and ProxyPassReverse.  (and make sure that
> each machine involved knew where to find the desired server).
>
> Thanks again for all the help.
>
> Shawn
>
> On Tuesday 15 March 2005 19:54, Michael Gale wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> 	That is an excellent idea ... sed could do that no problem, since by
>> default sed's output is STDOUT.
>>
>> | sed 's/find/replace/g'
>>
>> g - globally
>>
>> Michael
>>
>> Dave Lee wrote:
>> > Shawn <sgrover at open2space.com> wrote:
>> >>So, I guess my question is how do you do this then, if mod_rewrite isn't
>> >> the correct option?
>> >
>> > mod_ext_filter:
>> > http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/mod/mod_ext_filter.html
>> >
>> > which would allow you to run the content output through an program you
>> > want, so if you want to change all http://myapp... to http://extapp
>> > you could run the output through sed or perl
>> >
>> > I'm no sed expert, but here is an example.
>> >
>> > echo http://myapp | sed 's|http://myapp|http://extapp|'
>> >
>> > Dave
>> >



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