IBM IHS with proxypass the httpserver url redirects with application port and fails to load page

Question

I am using IBM IHS 8.5.5.17 version with proxypass settings. IHS is on port 80 and application server on 21010. When i try the url http://httpserverHost/myApp, it redirects to http://httpserverHost:21010/myApp and fails to load the page as 21010 is of application port.

I have used following configurations in IHS

ProxyPreserveHost On ProxyPass /myApp balancer://cluster/myApp/ <Proxy balancer://cluster> BalancerMember http://hostname1:21010 route=1 loadfactor=1 BalancerMember http://hostname2:21010 route=2 loadfactor=1 </Proxy>

Please help to resolve this issue.

Thanks Gopal

Answer 1

Every basic mod_proxy config uses ProxyPassReverse to fixup redirects from the backend. Note that if you use ProxyPreserveHost the 2nd argument needs to match httpserverHost:21010 not hostname1/hostname2.