ProxyPass help

[ak81]

Hello All,

I am new to Apache web server and its configuration. I have a very simple question and I think most of you would have a ready answer for my question

I am developing an application that will be part of a container application. The container application handles the user authentication part. My application would receive the authentication information and I will use that to show/hide parts of my application. The container application is on an integration machine and my application is currently on my local. I cannot run the container application on my local machine.

My question is - can i point the link to my application on the container application to my local machine using ProxyPass or ProxyPassReverse? The link on the container application to my application is

http://<integrationbox>/myapp

. I was trying to do something like this:

ProxyPass /myapp/

http://localhost:8080/myapp

ProxyPassReverse /myapp/

http://localhost:8080/myapp

Will something like this work?

Also, the user information is stored in session by the container app. Will I have access to that information?

Thanks in advance

AK

 

[plunkett]

That will work for simply proxying the app on your localhost back and forth, but if you want something more elegant where you can pass additional data and are using tomcat, you should check out mod_jk