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Railo for Dummies Part IV Appendix

March 28, 2009 · 11 Comments

In the comments on Part IV, Barney suggested using AJP to proxy and I confirmed that it preserves the CGI variables REMOTE_ADDR and REMOTE_HOST which Paul Kukiel asked me about. Paul also noted that adding the ProxyPreserveHost directive causes the host headers to be passed through the proxy. I'd actually added that locally but didn't want to complicate the blog post by mentioning it. In this Appendix post, I want to tackle SES URLs. One downside of Tomcat is that it does not support the following common form of SES URLs: We're going to tackle this by changing our proxy strategy to use mod_rewrite.

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11 CommentsTags: apache · coldfusion · osx · railo

Hate Apache?

August 02, 2005 · 7 Comments

Part of the fun, interesting and varied content on Fusion Authority - a link to a presentation (PDF, 670Kb) from the European ApacheCon this this entitled "Why I Hate the Apache Web Server". Now, I love Apache but I'll accept that it has some, er, "quirks"... My favorite slide is the one that talks about the powerful mod_rewrite:
I probably don't need to say anything more than just "mod_rewrite". But I will. "Voodoo" and "... flexibility of sendmail" The docs practically scream "GO AWAY!"

7 CommentsTags: apache · programming

Searching My Blog

May 24, 2005 · 2 Comments

I added a convenience URL so I could search my blog more easily - then realized other folks would probably like to use it too... http://corfield.org/search/keyword will search this blog for keyword as if you'd typed keyword into the search field (below, right). This has been achieved with an Apache mod_rewrite directive (search this blog for mod_rewrite). Enjoy!

2 CommentsTags: apache · blogging