Topic: Oracle Iplanet migration to Apache2

[joeadmin]

Server version: Apache/2.4.18 (Unix)
Solaris 11.1

New to Apache. Ive been able to get most reverse proxys to work.

Need help in migrating iplanet obj.conf entries.
Not sure of placement of NAMETRANS, in httpd.conf

NameTrans fn="map" from="/fcgi" name="reverse-proxy-/fcgi" to="http:/fcgi"
<If $path =~ "^/om(|/.*)$">

NameTrans fn="rewrite" root="/export/home/update/bin/test.cgi" path="$1"
</If>

NameTrans fn="pfx2dir" from="/bin" dir="/export/home/update/bin" name="cgi"

NameTrans fn="map" from="/app" name="reverse-proxy-/app" to="http:/app"

NameTrans fn="map" from="/jsp" name="reverse-proxy-/jsp" to="http:/jsp"

NameTrans fn="map" from="/wm" name="reverse-proxy-/wm" to="http:/wm"

[James Blond]

What does the NAMETRANS do? Alias? Or reverse proxy stuff or URL rewriting?

[joeadmin]

Its a URL redirection. Its basically saying
if /om/ (http://www.foo.com/om/) is entered after the URL, run the the test.cgi

<If $path =~ "^/om(|/.*)$">
NameTrans fn="rewrite" root="/export/home/update/bin/test.cgi" path="$1"
</If>

Apache doesn't like the $ sign
thanks

[James Blond]

In most cases I would use simply mod rewrite. But with cgi you may wanna use ScriptAliasMatch[1]


[1] https://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/mod/mod_alias.html#scriptaliasmatch