Topic: mod.rewrite proxy to forward from domain1 to domain2

[nicoven]

Dear all,

We have a company portal that contains links to various application and webservers.

One of these links redirects to a server that we need to enable proxy on our web browser to pass through and authenticate.

The proxy server is Apache 2.2 in Windows 2008. It is just acting as a proxy and no VIRTUAL HOST is configured.

As I am very very new to Apache I would appreciate your help to achieve the following:

I want every request that comes from portal.example.com to be forwarded to browse.example.com

To get this done I was thinking to :

1. remove the # from LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so to enable the rewrite module. I hope no other action needed to enable it.

2. Add something like the following in my httpd.conf file:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^portal.example.com$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ browse.example.com/$1 [P,L]

</IfModule>

Can you please assist on this and amend the above code, as i am not confident that it will do the job?
You can propose your own ways if you think so.

I am attaching a very small part of the current httpd.conf hereby for your reference.

Thanking you in advance

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<IfModule mod_proxy.c>

ProxyRequests On
AllowCONNECT 443 49171

<proxy *>
Order deny,allow
Allow from 10.10

</Proxy>

AllowCONNECT 443 49171

[James Blond]

You better use mod_proxy to connect to the backend server.