Re: [users@httpd] Apache modifies URL when offloading SSL

2012-07-01 Thread Igor Cicimov
On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 9:01 AM, Clinton J. Campbell < clinton.campb...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks Daniel (and others) for the help along the way. I've landed on > pretty much the same conclusion as I've continued researching. The > additional insight about the redirects helped me craft my search

Re: [users@httpd] Apache modifies URL when offloading SSL

2012-07-01 Thread Clinton J. Campbell
Thanks Daniel (and others) for the help along the way. I've landed on pretty much the same conclusion as I've continued researching. The additional insight about the redirects helped me craft my searches more specifically. I figure I ought to share some of my conclusions for anybody who might

Re: [users@httpd] Apache modifies URL when offloading SSL

2012-07-01 Thread Daniel Ruggeri
On 7/1/2012 2:40 AM, Clinton J. Campbell wrote: > I know that this is not an unusual combo, fronting an unencrypted httpd with > a proxy accepting connections over https, and the server seems to handle > receiving https URI's within headers for GET requests. So I guess I'm still > curious wheth

Re: [users@httpd] Apache modifies URL when offloading SSL

2012-07-01 Thread Clinton J. Campbell
Thanks for the tip Daniel. I ran some more tests while monitoring httpd logs followed by a similar set of tests monitoring the Squid logs with debugging turned on. What I've found is that the connection is initially handled correctly until credentials are posted. At this point, httpd sends an

Re: [users@httpd] Apache modifies URL when offloading SSL

2012-06-29 Thread Daniel Ruggeri
On 6/29/2012 11:43 AM, Clinton J. Campbell wrote: > I'm trying to configure the logs so that I can confirm whether this is > generated by Apache or not. Any tips? mod_dumpio is the place to be for debugging this kind of stuff. All input and output will get logged to show you exactly what httpd i

Re: [users@httpd] Apache modifies URL when offloading SSL

2012-06-29 Thread Clinton J. Campbell
Thanks for the response. I spent my time initially focusing on the proxy until I found similar questions on the Squid mailing list that pointed to the backend server as the problem. The access logs for apache seem to correspond to what I described. I just ran a test a moment ago and this is f

Re: [users@httpd] Apache modifies URL when offloading SSL

2012-06-28 Thread Igor Cicimov
Hmmm this - apache changes the url to http://www.mydomain.com/administrator/. > .. doesn't make sense to me in your scenario. Since you are offloading the SSL on the proxy all the communication between the proxy and apache is over HTTP not SSL. So the requ

[users@httpd] Apache modifies URL when offloading SSL

2012-06-28 Thread Clinton J. Campbell
I've been searching archives and other forums, and though I've found others who have asked similar questions, I haven't found a solution yet. I currently have an Apache server that sits behind a Squid Reverse Proxy. The Apache server runs two virtual hosts, a Joomla website and a WebDav directo