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Asked: 2026-05-28T17:52:11+00:00

I have an apache server that works as a reverse proxy in our DMZ.

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I have an apache server that works as a reverse proxy in our DMZ. We have an external service that posts back to a particular URL on this server. There is a need now for this service to postback to an entirely new application, but this will most likely change again in the near future as we’re in a testing phase right now.

So to resolve this, I’m trying to take the incoming postback request, /smsPostback.php, and rewrite it to a new relative URL, /SMSHandler/Process. This part is working.

However defined immediately below in the config, I have a ProxyPass directive to proxy all traffic to /SMSHandler to an internal server.

These are the new lines from the apache conf file:

RewriteRule ^/smsPostback.php$ /SMSHandler/Process 
##Proxy pass smshandler
ProxyPass /SMSHandler http://172.29.61.49:8080/SMSHandler
ProxyPassReverse /SMSHandler http://172.29.61.49:8080/SMSHandler

And these are the logs from the rewrite log:

172.29.61.49 - - [24/Jan/2012:18:43:36 --0500] [test.hidden.com/sid#5eace0][rid#446b770/initial] (2) init rewrite engine with requested uri /smsPostback.php
172.29.61.49 - - [24/Jan/2012:18:43:36 --0500] [test.hidden.com/sid#5eace0][rid#446b770/initial] (3) applying pattern '^/smsPostback.php$' to uri '/smsPostback.php'
172.29.61.49 - - [24/Jan/2012:18:43:36 --0500] [test.hidden.com/sid#5eace0][rid#446b770/initial] (2) rewrite '/smsPostback.php' -> '/SMSHandler/Process'
172.29.61.49 - - [24/Jan/2012:18:43:36 --0500] [test.hidden.com/sid#5eace0][rid#446b770/initial] (2) local path result: /SMSHandler/Process
172.29.61.49 - - [24/Jan/2012:18:43:36 --0500] [test.hidden.com/sid#5eace0][rid#446b770/initial] (2) prefixed with document_root to C:/hidden.com/SMSHandler/Process
172.29.61.49 - - [24/Jan/2012:18:43:36 --0500] [test.hidden.com/sid#5eace0][rid#446b770/initial] (1) go-ahead with C:/hidden.com/SMSHandler/Process [OK]

And this is the error log entry from apache:

[Tue Jan 24 18:43:36 2012] [error] [client 172.29.61.49] File does not exist: C:/fmfacilitymaintenance.com/SMSHandler

Any thoughts as to why it never reverse proxies the request, but rather tries (and fails) to serve it locally?? Thanks!

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  1. Editorial Team

    You need to add a PT (PassThrough) to your RewriteRule so that apache takes the rewritten URI and passes it back through the URL handling pipeline (so that mod_proxy can handle it). The rule should look like this:

    RewriteRule ^/smsPostback.php$ /SMSHandler/Process [L,PT]
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