I am running Apache 2.0.52 on a RHEL4 server. I have set up a proxy so that different servers can process different URL's.

http://hostname.com/route1/ -> server1
http://hostname.com/route2/ -> server2
http://hostname.com/route3/ -> server3

The problem is that I am trying to access the logs on server1. When JoeUser accesses http://hostname.com/route1, the logs on server1 show a request coming from my proxy. I have tried adding ProxyPreserveHost On to my conf file, but I still get the proxy IP address in the log rather than JoeUser's host information.

Is there a way to forward the host information that the proxy receives to the individual servers? I realize that I can see that on the proxy server logs, but because of the number of connections, it becomes difficult to sort out each server.

Thanx for any help.

you seem to be generally misusing the word "host"... the host is the name of the server the user is requesting, e.g. "example.com" that would be the contents of the "host" header and that is what is preserved in that directive. what you appear to want is to add an X-Forwarded-For header. I've not added a header in apache myself, but there doesn't *appear* to be any dedicated config to add it, but just use the generic header module to add it... http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/mod_headers.html

actually, this doc says it may well already be there by default... http://www.openinfo.co.uk/apache/index.html (search for x-forwarded-for) and IF that header is already there then you'd just need to change the log strings to pull the ip from that header instead of the raw connection data: http://www.gadgettrail.com/2005/01/1...g-with-apache/

Thank you Very Much!! That was exactly what I needed. All I needed to do was to replace the %h in the LogFormat directive with %{X-Forwarded-For}i.

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