[Catalyst] Port on c.req.base behind a caching program

[Terence Monteiro]

On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 06:49:16AM -0800, J. Shirley wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 3:21 AM, Terence Monteiro
> <terence at deeproot.co.in> wrote:
> > I'm running a Catalyst application on port x behind varnish on 80 for
> > caching. Whenever I call c.req.base or c.uri_for, I get the backend
> > server port as a result. I tried setting the using_frontend_proxy option
> > in my config, but still I get the backend port.
> >
> > I searched the mailing list and found and old thread from 2005,
> >
> > http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/catalyst/users/1595?search_string=req%20base;#1595
> >
> > but can anyone tell me what is the currently the best approach to be
> > used? My apache version is 2.2.8-1ubuntu0.3, mod_perl version is
> > 2.0.3-2ubuntu2.
> >
> 
> Just so I get what you are saying, you have Varnish -> Apache ->
> Mod_Perl -> Catalyst?
> 

That's right.

> If so, you probably just need to set the X-Forwarded-Host parameter in
> Varnish to your frontend domain.  In your VCL, add this:
> 
> set    req.http.X-Forwarded-Host     = "mysite.com";
> 

Thanks a lot. That did the trick. I gave the above with my frontend
port in my vcl config in the vcl_recv subroutine.

> I have a Varnish setup here, and it seems to setup everything so I
> haven't needed the using_frontend_proxy flag.
> 
> -J
> 
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