[Catalyst] problems: frontend SSL-Apache, backend Catalyst Server

[Jens Schwarz]

Hi *,

I am right now in the state of deploying my Catalyst App and have problems with my intended setup:

In the backend I want to use the Catalyst Server (i.e. $ CATALYST_ENGINE='HTTP::Prefork' /path/to/myapp/script/myapp_server.pl) that serves only to localhost. In the frontend a SSL-ified Apache is setup to relay everything from/to the Catalyst Server in order to have a secure umbrella around the Catalyst App.

I have looked at http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?Catalyst::Manual::Cookbook and tried to adopt the deployment options to my scenario but have problems.

The problems I encountered:
- Starting the app via https://myserver.example.com works, but if I click any link inside the app (all of them use uri_for(...)) my browser returns to http://myserver.example.com (note: http instead of https).
- Images are not displayed anymore. I guess that's the "serving static content" in the cookbook. But I thought this is covered by the Apache setup.
- If I want to "move" my app from https://myserver.example.com to https://myserver.example.com/superdupercatapp (see commented-out parts of my config below) my browser returns to http://myserver.example.com/mycontroller/myaction instead of https://myserver.example.com/superdupercatapp/mycontroller/myaction.

I am a bit confused about how to fix these problems.

My Apache Virtual Host config looks like this right now:
<VirtualHost *>
 DocumentRoot /path/to/myapp/root
 Alias /static /path/to/myapp/root/static

 ProxyRequests Off
 <Proxy *>
  Order deny,allow
  Allow from all
 </Proxy>

 ProxyPass /static !
 ProxyPass /favicon.ico !
 ProxyPass / http://localhost:3000/
 ProxyPassReverse / http://localhost:3000/

 ServerName myserver.example.com
 ServerAdmin webmaster at example.com

 #RewriteEngine On
 #RewriteLog "/var/log/apache2/rewrite.log"
 #RewriteLogLevel 1
 #RewriteRule ^/superdupercatapp http://localhost:3000/ [P]
 #RewriteRule ^/superdupercatapp/(.*) http://localhost:3000/$1 [P,L]
 #ProxyPassReverse /superdupercatapp http://localhost:3000/

 <IfDefine SSL>
  SSLEngine On
  SSLCertificateFile "/etc/ssl/server.pem"
  SSLCertificateKeyFile "/etc/ssl/server.key"
  SSLCACertificateFile "/etc/ssl/cacert.pem"
 </IfDefine>
</VirtualHost>

Any hints or pointers?

Thanks a lot. Jens
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