[Using Sakai] 2 reverse proxy to serve a sakai installation

Tapas Mishra mightydreams at gmail.com
Sun Jul 18 04:42:35 PDT 2010


I am having following setup

A------B
(A with Public IP) B is where sakai is
on A and B both Ubuntu 10.04 and Apache2 are running.

On B there are many websites running.
Which are configured with
NameBased VirtualHosting.

On A a request comes from internet

http://www.mysite.com/site1
http://www.mysite.com/site2
http://www.mysite.com/site3

A forwards all the requests for www.mysite.com to B as

<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName mysite.com

ProxyPass /site1 http://(vhost at B for site1)
ProxyPassReverse /site1 http://(vhost at B for site1)


ProxyPass /site2 http://(vhost at B for site2)
ProxyPassReverse /site2 http://(vhost at B for site2)


ProxyPass /site3 http://(vhost at B for site3)
ProxyPassReverse /site3 http://(vhost at B for site3)


ProxyPass /site4 http://(vhost at B for site4)
ProxyPassReverse /site4 http://(vhost at B for site4)


</VirtualHost



On B vhosts for site1 , site2 ,site 3websites are

<VirtualHost *:80>
Server name site1
DocumentRoot /var/www/site1
..
..
</VirtualHost>

for site2

<VirtualHost *:80>
Server name site2
DocumentRoot /var/www/site1
..
..
</VirtualHost>

for site3

<VirtualHost *:80>
Server name site3
DocumentRoot /var/www/site1
..
..
</VirtualHost>


now the site for which I am asking the problem is sakai and has a vhost as


<VirtualHost *:80>
Server name site4

ProxyPass / http://localhost:9090/portal
ProxyPassReverse / http://localhost:9090/portal
</VirtualHost>


Is this way of using vhosts or ReverseProxy wrong  for sakai ?
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Tapas



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