Commit 2cdcfb04 authored by brian's avatar brian
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Obtained from: based on comments from John Line (webadm@info.cam.ac.uk) 

Clarification.


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This defines remote proxies to this proxy. &lt;match&gt; is either the

name of a URL-scheme that the remote server supports, or a partial URL

for which the remote server should be used, or '$' to indicate the

for which the remote server should be used, or '*' to indicate the

server should be contacted for all requests. &lt;remote-server&gt; is a

partial URL for the remote server. Syntax:
@@ -77,11 +77,15 @@ server; only "http" is supported by this module. 


Example:

<pre>

  ProxyRemote ftp http://ftpproxy.mydomain.com:8080

  ProxyRemote http://goodguys.com/ http://mirrorguys.com:8000

  ProxyRemote * http://cleversite.com

  ProxyRemote ftp http://ftpproxy.mydomain.com:8080

</pre>



In the last example, the proxy will forward FTP requests, encapsulated

as yet another HTTP proxy request, to another proxy which can handle

them.  Apache itself can not directly handle FTP requests currently.



<A name="proxypass"><h2>ProxyPass</h2></A>

<strong>Syntax:</strong> ProxyPass <em>&lt;path&gt; &lt;url&gt;</em><br>

<strong>Context:</strong> server config<br>