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I have an Apache reverse proxy set to move requests to a Tomcat Applet. The config is similar to:

<VirtualHost 100.100.100.100:80>
    ProxyPass /AppName/App http://1.1.1.1/AppName/App
    ProxyPassReverse /AppName/App http://1.1.1.1/AppName/App
</VirtualHost>

I also have a page called summary.html that exists on 1.1.1.1 as:

http://1.1.1.1/AppName/summary.html

When I browse directly to it I have no problem viewing it, however if I try to get there via the reverse proxy I get a blank page. Wireshark shows me a 503, but this one is coming from the Apache reverse proxy (IP 100.100.100.100) and not the Tomcat (IP 1.1.1.1).

Should I add http://1.1.1.1/AppName/ to the config? How? I tried it but I get a blank page, however this one shows on the URL bar of the browser the internal IP of the Tomcat, so, no go.

Help is appreciated.

Thanks.

EDIT: This is the dump from Wireshark:

GET /AppName/ HTTP/1.1
Host: 100.100.100.100
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_6_8) AppleWebKit/534.52.7 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.1.2 Safari/534.52.7
Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8
Cache-Control: max-age=0
Accept-Language: en-us
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
Connection: keep-alive

HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2012 09:08:51 GMT
Server: Apache
Content-Length: 1
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1
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Adding it like this should work just fine:

<VirtualHost 100.100.100.100:80>
    ProxyPass /AppName/ http://1.1.1.1/AppName/
    ProxyPassReverse /AppName/ http://1.1.1.1/AppName/
</VirtualHost>

Or even:

<VirtualHost 100.100.100.100:80>
    ProxyPass /AppName/summary.html http://1.1.1.1/AppName/summary.html
    ProxyPassReverse /AppName/summary.html http://1.1.1.1/AppName/summary.html
    ProxyPass /AppName/App http://1.1.1.1/AppName/App
    ProxyPassReverse /AppName/App http://1.1.1.1/AppName/App
</VirtualHost>

Can you clarify what issue occurs when you have a config like this in place? I'm not quite sure what you mean by "this one shows on the URL bar of the browser the internal IP of the Tomcat".

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When you browse to 100.100.100.100/AppName/summary,html it presents a blank page and the URL on the browser gets changed to 1.1.1.1/AppName/summary.html. – Mr Aleph Jan 30 at 15:43
Also, what if I want to do a generic error handling on Tomcat. Ideally every time a 404 or 500 or whatever is thrown I want to show a customized error.html. I have that in place on the config for Tomcat, however with the VirtualHost on Apache it doesn't display the error page either. – Mr Aleph Jan 30 at 15:46
@MrAleph Then you need to trace what's actually happening with the request; something's responding with a redirect, but Apache shouldn't allow that Location header in a response unmodified with a proper ProxyPassReverse config in place. Have you tried with the configs that I've provided? – Shane Madden Jan 30 at 16:10
I am doing it as I type. I'll post the reply in a bit. Thanks for the help – Mr Aleph Jan 30 at 16:13
Same story. All I get is a blank page. If I go directly to 1.1.1.1 then it's fine. Just as a test I assigned an external IP to 1.1.1.1. If I go directly to that one as 300.300.300.300/AppName/symmary.html then it's also fine. The minute I try from the reverse proxy then it doesn't work. So my guess is that the reverse proxy doesn't know where to go get that file. I can hardcode it as you said as ProxyPass /AppName/summary.html http://1.1.1.1/AppName/summary.html but that would not work for the error pages or if I want to add more pages – Mr Aleph Jan 30 at 18:25
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