apache as proxy server?

[jc at trillian.mit.edu (John Chambers)]

David Allan <dave at dpallan.com> wrote:
| Did you ever figure out what was going on here?  I have a similar problem,
| where Apache is the proxy server, and it won't get a few things located on
| virtual hosts on the same box as the proxy server, although it will get
| pages on other hosts.

Nope.  However, I did get it working.  What I did  was  to  move  the
entire  apache  installation  out  of  the way, cleaned up the source
directory, and did a complete build starting  with  ./configure  with
options to enable all modules.  This seems to have worked. Of course,
it's probably far larger than what I need, but I can trim it  down  a
bit after some more study of TFM..

I've held off writing a followup until I can make a bit more sense of
what  I got.  The httpd.conf file came out a whole lot larger, with a
lot of lines that don't seem to be very clearly documented. About all
I can say is "Well, I'd have *never* guessed that you had to do those
sorts of things."  Even knowing about them doesn't help me much when
I go back to the documentation and try to figure out how I might have
known what was needed.

>From the looks of it, I'd say that  trying  to  add  features  to  an
istalled version is probably not going to work in general, unless you
are a true apache guru  and  know  exactly  what  every  one  fo  the
directives mean.  For the rest of us mere mortals, my advice would be
to build a completely new server from scratch with anything that  you
might ever possibly want. The install will create the httpd.conf file
for you, which you can then trim down if you like.

I haven't yet tried to get apache to do virtual hosts. Though I guess
that  this  was,  in  effect,  what it was doing to me before, in the
sense that it was acting  like  the  entire  internet  was  virtually
hosted on its own disk.

(Segfault.org had a story similar to this recently, about AOL sending
out  CDs  that  contain  "the entire Internet", or at least all of it
that AOL thought their customers would be interested in.)

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