Apache as Proxy Server

Apache as a Proxy Server

This article describes my efforts to implement the configuration described at http://www.snipsnap.org in the Apache as a Proxy.

Using the Java Server

Using Version 1.0b3 seems to work as documented on http://www.snipsnap.org, the problems documented below are either tomcat's or belong to the .war implementation. See also Snipsnap Problems on this site. I shall document this properly on the Snipsnap community resources over the next few days. 4th Jan 2007

Using Tomcat

I have done this using

• A Cobalt Qube running Linux 2.2 (Yeah, I know but its what I have got!).
• Apache V1.3.29
• Snipsnap Version 1.0b3 Uttoxeter .war
• Tomcat Version 4.1

I had some problems, but basically, the following lines worked for me

httpd.conf

ProxyRequest off
ProxyPass        /snipsnap     http://davelevy.dyndns.info/snipsnap
ProxyPassReverse /snipsnap     http://davelevy.dyndns.info/snipsnap

The SnipSnap configuration

I set conf using the GUI provided

app.real.port=8080
app.real.path=/snipsnap
app.real.host=davelevy.dyndns.info

It seems to be working quite nicely, but many of the URLs held in snipsnap are now port aware, so I may have some legacy problems. I recommend anyone following me try and fix this before they insert any content.