On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 1:55 PM, Leandro Hermida <softdev@leandrohermida.com> wrote:

Hi again,

After a bit more research I guess I can see why -- since as you show in the instructions you also intend to serve static content via the proxy server and this requires using mod_rewrite anyway that you chose to do the reverse proxy part also using mod_rewrite. Sorry for being confused, I have seen before configurations with mod_proxy and mod_rewrite directives together doing the same thing I was wondering why! :)

best,
Leandro

On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 12:22 PM, Leandro Hermida <softdev@leandrohermida.com> wrote:

Hi all,

Sorry if this question has been asked before searched and couldn't find anyone specifically talking about this. In the Galaxy wiki under https://bitbucket.org/galaxy/galaxy-central/wiki/Config/ApacheProxy there are instructions for setting up Galaxy behind a web server proxy. I wondered what are the reasons/advantages of doing a reverse proxy using all mod_rewrite directives (as shown in the instructions) vs doing a standard Apache front-end reverse proxy:

ProxyRequests Off
ProxyPass / http://galaxy.host.domain:8080/
ProxyPassReverse / http://galaxy.host.domain:8080/

The instructions using mod_rewrite are making a reverse proxy too since the RewriteRule directive has the [P] flag.

regards,
Leandro