[Catalyst] Anyone using ProxyPass?

[Richard Jones]

Richard Jones wrote:

> However, the URLs constructed in the templates from Catalyst.uri_for 
> pick up the port number, thus defeating the idea of ProxyPass. In one of 

Replying to my own post, but for the benefit of closure, and for anyone 
else who might stumble over this one in future, I've fixed it.

The main reason for the apparent failure to remove the backend server 
port from uri_for was that the $host variable in 
Catalyst::Engine::Apache::prepare_path ($self->apache->hostname) was set 
to the IP address of the backend server, not localhost/127.0.0.1. So 
PROXY_CHECK was skipped and the requesting url + port were passed 
through unchanged as $host for eventual inclusion in $c->request->uri
and $c->request->base. Easily fixed by setting using_frontend_proxy => 1 
in the app config.

The clues were all there had I but realised - the lack of 
X-Fowarded-Host was a red-herring as I was looking at the result of 
requests made with url's containing the backend port, so of course it 
wasn't set! We live and learn.
-- 
Richard Jones