Topic: Pass SSL through balancer, let workers decrypt

[DaveEcometry]

I'm using mod_proxy_balancer in Apache 2.2.29 with OpenSSL on Windows to distribute HTTPS requests to two other back end servers, both of which are also Apache 2.2.29 with OpenSSL on Windows.

DumpIO shows that the requests are being decrypted on the balancer, and then sent unencrypted to the two workers. I would like to have the requests pass through the balancer without decrypting there, and let the two back end worker servers do the decryption. Is that possible? If so, how?

When I tried simply disabling SSL on the balancer, the requests fail, with nothing logged at all.

Thanks,
Dave

[DaveEcometry]

Got it working!

Duh! I had this:
<Proxy balancer://mycluster>
BalancerMember http://TESTSERVER01
BalancerMember http://TESTSERVER02
</Proxy>

But it works fine, now that I changed http to https for each BalancerMember and added SSLProxyEngine like this:
<Proxy balancer://mycluster>
BalancerMember https://TESTSERVER01:8081
BalancerMember https://TESTSERVER02:8081
</Proxy>
SSLProxyEngine On

Posting the result for anyone who encounters the same problem.

Dave

[pat9]

Dave, Thanks - I was wondering if that was even possible. Thanks for sharing.

Regards.