krist.vanbesien at gmail
Nov 16, 2007, 12:52 PM
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Re: can Apache proxy convert a HTTP request to HTTPS and proxy it to a HTTPS Server?
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On Nov 16, 2007 8:14 PM, Qingshan Xie <xieq_49[at]yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> There is a need that an Apache server converts a HTTP request to HTTPS, and proxies it to the backend HTTPS server. Can an Apache instance do it?
Yes Apache can do this. However not "out of the box".
See:
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/mod_ssl.html#sslproxyengine
For example add the following to your config:
SSLProxyEngine on
SSLProxyMachineCertificatePath /usr/local/apache2/conf/proxy.crt/
You can of course use another path, but it must contain the PEM
encoded root certificate used to sign the certificates the servers you
want to communicate with use. These you will have to provide yourself.
Once you have that you ought to be possible to do something like this:
ProxyPass /mysite https://www.myothersite.com/foo
HTH,
Krist
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