Problems with Apache Proxy to 3 clustered domains....

Question

I have 3 different domains (qa, stage, production) running on weblogic 81. I am trying to get Apache to route to the correct domains.
ie...
http://192.XXX.XXX.XXX/qa/application connects to 192.XXX.XXX.XX2:7001/application
http://192.XXX.XXX.XXX/stage/application connects to 192.XXX.XXX.XX2:7002/application
http://192.XXX.XXX.XXX/application (production) connects to 192.XXX.XXX.XX2:7003/application
I got that to work, when the URL is first entered into the browser, but the problem is when I try to move around in the qa and stage apps, i lose the "/qa" or "/stage". So it is always goes to the production app.
httpd.conf -->
<Location /qa/application>
SetHandler weblogic-handler
WebLogicCluster one:7001,two:7001
PathTrim /qa
</Location>
I understand what is happening, when I trim the /qa it is then no longer present in the URL when passed back to the client. So the next movement in the application is sent to
http://192.XXX.XXX.XXX/application (the production URL). I guess I am unsure how to fix this....any help????
Thanks...
Nick

Answer 1

Hello,
From this it looks like you may be able to use PathPrepend to jimmy your URLs:
PathPrepend : String that the plug-in prepends to the beginning of the original URL, after PathTrim is trimmed and before the request is forwarded to WebLogic Server.
I would suggest it may be a good idea to have a seperate webserver for your production domain. In most places I have worked in every platform is configuered with its own resources e.g staging server has its own webserver and db. This affords the people that use those envrionments greater isolation.