Gareth.Brown at CallCreditGroup
Oct 16, 2009, 5:26 AM
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Re: Help with apache reporting the wrong Port number
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Thanks Tom,
Both for Speed and accuracy.
adding the following to my config did it:
UseCanonicalPhysicalPort On
You have saved me panic before the weekend (my project was due today and
I've been messing about with this all week).
Cheers
Gareth
Tom Evans wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-10-16 at 11:10 +0100, Gareth Brown wrote:
>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> Sorry if this is a known issue, but I have searched Google/forums etc
>> and found no clear answer.
>>
>> *The problem I have
>> *My Apache is accepting http traffic on port 81, but reporting it as
>> port 80 - via the PHP command:
>> $port=$_SERVER['SERVER_PORT']
>>
>> I am doing it through a F5 Big-IP load balancer, and I think the problem
>> is either an apache config, or a big-ip config for how it sends the data
>> to apache.
>>
>> *My Setup*
>> The Big-IP intercepts http traffic and forwards in on to port 80
>> it also intercepts https traffic on port 443, decrypts it and send it on
>> via http on port 81
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>> My website then checks if it is on port 81, so I know traffic is secure.
>>
>>
>> *What I have tried*
>>
>> If I put an iis (yuck) server behind the Big IP instead of apache and it
>> reports 80 and 81 correctly
>>
>> If I put apache back behind the big-ip it reports both port 80 and port
>> 81 as being port 80
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>> If I stop apache running on port 80, and send data to port 81, it still
>> reports as port 80
>>
>>
>>
>> Has anyone seen this before, or is it just something I've messed up some
>> place?
>>
>> Many thanks
>>
>> Gareth
>>
>>
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> Apache normally uses information supplied by the client to produce
> self-referential URIs. See the following directives for details on how
> to change that.
>
> http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/core.html#usecanonicalname
> http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/core.html#servername
> http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/core.html#usecanonicalphysicalport
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> Cheers
>
> Tom
>
>
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