/ 
Apache-ReverseProxy-0.07
River stage zero No dependents
/ Apache::ReverseProxy

NAME

Apache::ReverseProxy - An Apache mod_perl reverse proxy

SYNOPSIS

# In Apache config file
<Location />
SetHandler perl-script
PerlHandler Apache::ReverseProxy
PerlSetVar ReverseProxyConfig /usr/local/apache/conf/rproxy.conf
</Location>

# In rproxy.conf / http://www.cpan.org/

DESCRIPTION

This is a reverse proxy module for Apache with mod_perl. It is intended to replace Apache::ProxyPass. Given a list of URI mappings, this module will translate an incoming URI, retrieve the contents for the translated URI, and return the contents to the original requestor. This module allows you to specify exact matching (instead of regular expression matching) and handles query string translations.

CONFIGURATION

You will need to set the ReverseProxyConfig perl variable in Apache to the path of the reverse proxy mapping file. For example:

<Location />
SetHandler perl-script
PerlHandler Apache::ReverseProxy
PerlSetVar ReverseProxyConfig /usr/local/apache/conf/rproxy.conf

# Optional configuration items:
#PerlSetVar ReverseProxyChain http://proxy.mycompany.com:8888/
#PerlSetVar ReverseProxyNoChain mycompany.com
</Location>

ReverseProxyChain specifies a proxy server to use. This is sometimes called proxy chaining when one proxy server uses another proxy server. The ReverseProxyNoChain directive can specify a domain to not use proxy chaining on.

Reverse proxy configuration files have three fields, each separated by white space. The first field is the uri to look for, the second field is the replacement uri, and the third field is optional and allows you to specify comma separated options for the mapping. The only option that is currently supported is the exact parameter, which will make the reverse proxy use exact matching for the first parameter instead of using regular expressions. This feature is convenient when the first parameter contains characters that may need to be escaped or quotemeta'ed. Exact options are evaluated first. If there isn't an exact match, regular expression matches are performed. Configuration files may contain comments, which start with a pound sign. For example:

/news/ http://www.news.com/
/ http://www.perl.com/
/stats http://localhost/stats exact
# /stats maps exactly to http://localhost/stats
# /stats/b maps to http://www.perl.com/stats/b
/french/news http://www.news.com/?language=french
# /french/news/index -> http://www.news.com/index?language=french
# /french/news/index?a=b -> http://www.news.com/index?language=french&a=b

TO-DO

1. Cookie header translation.
2. Verbose/debug logging.

REQUIREMENTS

This module requires LWP, available at:
http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-module/LWP/

AUTHOR

Clinton Wong, http://search.cpan.org/~clintdw/

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (c) 1999-2005 Clinton Wong.
Additional modifications Copyright (c) 2000 David Jao.
Additional modifications Copyright (c) 2005 Penny Leach.
All rights reserved.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it
and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

This module is based on Apache::ProxyPass, by Michael
Smith <mjs@iii.co.uk>, which is based on Apache::ProxyPassThru.