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<body> <div id="header"> <span class="left"> <span class="back"><a href="lthread_list.php?webtag=DEFAULT"><span class="image mobile_back" title="Back"></span></a></span> <span class="image mobile_logo" title="Beehive Forum Logo"></span> </span> <ul> <li> <a class="reply_all" href="lpost.php?webtag=DEFAULT&reply_to=42132.0&return_msg=42132.5"> <span class="image mobile_reply_all"></span><span class="text">Reply to All</span> </a> </li> <li> <a class="navigation" href="#"> <span class="image mobile_navigation"></span><span class="text">Show messages</span> </a> </li> <li> <a class="main" href="#"><span class="image mobile_menu" title="Menu"></span> </a> </li> </ul> </div> <div class="menu main"> <ul> <li><a href="lthread_list.php?webtag=DEFAULT">Messages</a></li> <li><a href="lpm.php?webtag=DEFAULT">Inbox</a></li> <li><a href="lsearch.php?webtag=DEFAULT">Search</a></li> <li><a href="llogon.php?webtag=DEFAULT">Login</a></li> </ul> </div> <div class="menu navigation"><a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=42132.1">1–10</a><a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=42132.11">11–13</a></div> <div id="page_content"> <h3 class="thread_title"><a href="index.php?webtag=DEFAULT&amp;msg=42132.5">Can I chain a web server to another?</a> </h3> <div id="messages" data-navigation="42132_5_13_10"> <a name="a42132_5"></a><div class="message" id="message_42132_5"> <div class="message_header"> <div class="message_from"> From: ANT_THOMAS<span class="message_time">26 Feb 2018 20:14</span> <div class="clearer"></div> </div><div class="message_to">To: CHYRON (DSMITHHFX) <span><span class="image post_read" title="Read: 26 Feb 2018 20:50"></span></span> <span class="message_count">5 of 13</span><div class="clearer"></div> </div> </div> <div class="message_links"> <a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=42132.5">42132.5</a> In reply to <a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=42132.4">42132.4</a></div> <div class="message_body"> Glad to hear it was the answer! <span class="emoticon e_smile" title=":)"><span class="e__">:)</span></span></div> <div class="message_footer"> <div class="message_footer_links"><a href="lpost.php?webtag=DEFAULT&reply_to=42132.5&return_msg=42132.5" class="reply"><span class="image post"></span>Reply</a></div> <div class="message_vote_form" data-msg="42132.5"> <span class="rating">0/0</span> <span class="image vote vote_down vote_down_off" title="Vote Down"></span> <span class="image vote vote_up vote_up_off" title="Vote Up"></span> </div> </div> </div><a name="a42132_6"></a><div class="message" id="message_42132_6"> <div class="message_header"> <div class="message_from"> From: CHYRON (DSMITHHFX)<span class="message_time">27 Feb 2018 21:09</span> <div class="clearer"></div> </div><div class="message_to">To: ALL<span class="message_count">6 of 13</span><div class="clearer"></div> </div> </div> <div class="message_links"> <a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=42132.6">42132.6</a></div> <div class="message_body"> And indeed it works for both plain HTML sites and a test Beehive install I did a few months ago. But Wordpress comes through all broken -- pages load with (at least) some images, but no css or scripts.<br /><br /> I've been reading a bunch of WP-behind-reverse-proxy tutorials, but none seem exactly applicable to my config <span class="emoticon e_sad" title=":-("><span class="e__">:-(</span></span> </div> <div class="message_footer"> <div class="message_footer_links"><a href="lpost.php?webtag=DEFAULT&reply_to=42132.6&return_msg=42132.5" class="reply"><span class="image post"></span>Reply</a></div> <div class="message_vote_form" data-msg="42132.6"> <span class="rating">0/0</span> <span class="image vote vote_down vote_down_off" title="Vote Down"></span> <span class="image vote vote_up vote_up_off" title="Vote Up"></span> </div> </div> </div><a name="a42132_7"></a><div class="message" id="message_42132_7"> <div class="message_header"> <div class="message_from"> From: Peter (BOUGHTONP)<span class="message_time">27 Feb 2018 21:52</span> <div class="clearer"></div> </div><div class="message_to">To: CHYRON (DSMITHHFX) <span><span class="image post_read" title="Read: 28 Feb 2018 00:47"></span></span> <span class="message_count">7 of 13</span><div class="clearer"></div> </div> </div> <div class="message_links"> <a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=42132.7">42132.7</a> In reply to <a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=42132.5#a42132_6" target="_self">42132.6</a></div> <div class="message_body"> Unless the proxy is configured to handle some content types differently to others, it will be treating them all the same. <p>The obvious thing to check/rule out is missing files or incorrect permissions, though it could also be that static ascii files are being gzipped and that's tripping it up, or if there's a minifier plugin that does local requests on a misconfigured hostname, or a CDN using a subdomain that isn't proxied. </p><p>Manual HTTP requests through PuTTY and/or curl are a useful way to figure out what's actually going on.</p></div> <div class="message_footer"> <div class="message_footer_links"><a href="lpost.php?webtag=DEFAULT&reply_to=42132.7&return_msg=42132.5" class="reply"><span class="image post"></span>Reply</a></div> <div class="message_vote_form" data-msg="42132.7"> <span class="rating">0/0</span> <span class="image vote vote_down vote_down_off" title="Vote Down"></span> <span class="image vote vote_up vote_up_off" title="Vote Up"></span> </div> </div> </div><a name="a42132_8"></a><div class="message" id="message_42132_8"> <div class="message_header"> <div class="message_from"> From: CHYRON (DSMITHHFX)<span class="message_time">28 Feb 2018 14:03</span> <div class="clearer"></div> </div><div class="message_to">To: Peter (BOUGHTONP) <span><span class="image post_read" title="Read: 28 Feb 2018 19:48"></span></span> <span class="message_count">8 of 13</span><div class="clearer"></div> </div> </div> <div class="message_links"> <a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=42132.8">42132.8</a> In reply to <a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=42132.5#a42132_7" target="_self">42132.7</a></div> <div class="message_body"> Thanks Peter.<br /><br /> In addition to the complications you raise, is that WP insists on absolute links for everything, and there's no easy workaround to switch/convert to relative links.<br /><br /> It's a clean install of latest WP release running on bog-standard LAMP, so no special config or plugins running on it ATM.<br /><br /> I'll look into the CDN thing, could be a culprit with missing scripts.</div> <div class="message_footer"> <div class="message_footer_links"><a href="lpost.php?webtag=DEFAULT&reply_to=42132.8&return_msg=42132.5" class="reply"><span class="image post"></span>Reply</a></div> <div class="message_vote_form" data-msg="42132.8"> <span class="rating">0/0</span> <span class="image vote vote_down vote_down_off" title="Vote Down"></span> <span class="image vote vote_up vote_up_off" title="Vote Up"></span> </div> </div> </div><a name="a42132_9"></a><div class="message" id="message_42132_9"> <div class="message_header"> <div class="message_from"> From: CHYRON (DSMITHHFX)<span class="message_time">28 Feb 2018 15:12</span> <div class="clearer"></div> </div><div class="message_to">To: ALL<span class="message_count">9 of 13</span><div class="clearer"></div> </div> </div> <div class="message_links"> <a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=42132.9">42132.9</a></div> <div class="message_body"> "Relative URL" WP plugin did the trick. Strange, because it didn't work yesterday, though I probably had some other thing misconfigured.</div> <div class="message_footer"> <div class="message_footer_links"><a href="lpost.php?webtag=DEFAULT&reply_to=42132.9&return_msg=42132.5" class="reply"><span class="image post"></span>Reply</a></div> <div class="message_vote_form" data-msg="42132.9"> <span class="rating">0/0</span> <span class="image vote vote_down vote_down_off" title="Vote Down"></span> <span class="image vote vote_up vote_up_off" title="Vote Up"></span> </div> </div> </div><a name="a42132_10"></a><div class="message" id="message_42132_10"> <div class="message_header"> <div class="message_from"> From: Peter (BOUGHTONP)<span class="message_time">28 Feb 2018 21:26</span> <div class="clearer"></div> </div><div class="message_to">To: CHYRON (DSMITHHFX) <span><span class="image post_read" title="Read: 28 Feb 2018 23:30"></span></span> <span class="message_count">10 of 13</span><div class="clearer"></div> </div> </div> <div class="message_links"> <a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=42132.10">42132.10</a> In reply to <a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=42132.5#a42132_8" target="_self">42132.8</a></div> <div class="message_body"> A properly setup reverse proxy doesn't care about absolute/relative URLs, because from the browser's perspective it's just interacting with the public face - it doesn't know/care which server the request is handled by. <p>Since you mentioned redirecting 80->443 I'm guessing the issue is/was with HTTP vs HTTPS and one of them was generating links that the other wouldn't serve. </p></div> <div class="message_footer"> <div class="message_footer_links"><a href="lpost.php?webtag=DEFAULT&reply_to=42132.10&return_msg=42132.5" class="reply"><span class="image post"></span>Reply</a></div> <div class="message_vote_form" data-msg="42132.10"> <span class="rating">0/0</span> <span class="image vote vote_down vote_down_off" title="Vote Down"></span> <span class="image vote vote_up vote_up_off" title="Vote Up"></span> </div> </div> </div><a name="a42132_11"></a><div class="message" id="message_42132_11"> <div class="message_header"> <div class="message_from"> From: CHYRON (DSMITHHFX)<span class="message_time">28 Feb 2018 23:33</span> <div class="clearer"></div> </div><div class="message_to">To: Peter (BOUGHTONP) <span><span class="image post_read" title="Read: 28 Feb 2018 23:46"></span></span> <span class="message_count">11 of 13</span><div class="clearer"></div> </div> </div> <div class="message_links"> <a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=42132.11">42132.11</a> In reply to <a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=42132.5#a42132_10" target="_self">42132.10</a></div> <div class="message_body"> Quite possibly.</div> <div class="message_footer"> <div class="message_footer_links"><a href="lpost.php?webtag=DEFAULT&reply_to=42132.11&return_msg=42132.5" class="reply"><span class="image post"></span>Reply</a></div> <div class="message_vote_form" data-msg="42132.11"> <span class="rating">0/0</span> <span class="image vote vote_down vote_down_off" title="Vote Down"></span> <span class="image vote vote_up vote_up_off" title="Vote Up"></span> </div> </div> </div><a name="a42132_12"></a><div class="message" id="message_42132_12"> <div class="message_header"> <div class="message_from"> From: CHYRON (DSMITHHFX)<span class="message_time">14 May 2018 16:06</span> <div class="clearer"></div> </div><div class="message_to">To: ALL<span class="message_count">12 of 13</span><div class="clearer"></div> </div> </div> <div class="message_links"> <a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=42132.12">42132.12</a></div> <div class="message_body"> double reverse-proxy trouble:<br /><br /> I'm trying to add another proxied site, from a different pc behind our our staging server. I duplicated the relevant lines in default-ssl.conf and changed the details thus: <div class="quotetext"><strong>Code:</strong> </div> <pre class="code"> ProxyRequests Off # reverse proxy to serverA/siteA 022718 <Location "/siteA"> ProxyPass <a href="http://serverA/siteA">http://serverA/siteA</a> ProxyPassReverse <a href="http://serverA/siteA">http://serverA/siteA</a> Order allow,deny Allow from all Authtype Basic Authname "Restricted Access" AuthUserFile /etc/apache2/.htpasswd Require user ****** </Location> # reverse proxy to serverB/siteB 051418 <Location "/siteB"> ProxyPass <a href="http://serverB/siteB">http://serverB/siteB</a> ProxyPassReverse <a href="http://serverB/siteB">http://serverB/siteB</a> Order allow,deny Allow from all Authtype Basic Authname "Restricted Access" AuthUserFile /etc/apache2/.htpasswd Require user ******* </Location></pre> <br /> "SiteA" (the original proxied wp site) continues to show the web-facing domain in the address bar<br /><br /> "SiteB" (another cms-y thing) switches from "<a href="https://mydomain.com/siteB">https://mydomain.com/siteB</a>" to "<a href="http://serverB">http://serverB</a>/siteB" upon loading.<br /><br /> Pretty sure I did no special config to the siteA apache instance, or if I did, can't find where it might be. <span class="emoticon e_sad" title=":-("><span class="e__">:-(</span></span><div class="edit_text">EDITED: 14 May 2018 16:15 by DSMITHHFX</div> </div> <div class="message_footer"> <div class="message_footer_links"><a href="lpost.php?webtag=DEFAULT&reply_to=42132.12&return_msg=42132.5" class="reply"><span class="image post"></span>Reply</a></div> <div class="message_vote_form" data-msg="42132.12"> <span class="rating">0/0</span> <span class="image vote vote_down vote_down_off" title="Vote Down"></span> <span class="image vote vote_up vote_up_off" title="Vote Up"></span> </div> </div> </div><a name="a42132_13"></a><div class="message" id="message_42132_13"> <div class="message_header"> <div class="message_from"> From: CHYRON (DSMITHHFX)<span class="message_time">14 May 2018 17:08</span> <div class="clearer"></div> </div><div class="message_to">To: ALL<span class="message_count">13 of 13</span><div class="clearer"></div> </div> </div> <div class="message_links"> <a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=42132.13">42132.13</a></div> <div class="message_body"> Nurmind. Like the wp, I had to modify a base url in the cms-y thing to point to the front-facing server.<br /><br /> All good (but not the >2-hours I wasted before it dawned on me <span class="emoticon e_unsure" title=":-/"><span class="e__">:-/</span></span> ).</div> <div class="message_footer"> <div class="message_footer_links"><a href="lpost.php?webtag=DEFAULT&reply_to=42132.13&return_msg=42132.5" class="reply"><span class="image post"></span>Reply</a></div> <div class="message_vote_form" data-msg="42132.13"> <span class="rating">0/0</span> <span class="image vote vote_down vote_down_off" title="Vote Down"></span> <span class="image vote vote_up vote_up_off" title="Vote Up"></span> </div> </div> </div></div> </div> </body>