How to configure Apache to proxy exactly one file?
Question
(I must be dense - I just can't figure out the Apache documentation on how to do this.)
To speed up some swf development I'm doing, I want to have my local machine fetch my local swf when I browse to our studio's test website. Just the one local swf only - with the rest pulled from the test website.
So I set up apache on port 80 with mod_proxy and proxy_http_module, then added an entry for HOSTS to say the test server is 127.0.0.1. What I need are the magical incantations to put in httpd.conf to say "every call requesting http://test/blah goes to 10.1.1.whatever EXCEPT http://test/blah/foo.swf which goes to c:\proj\foo.swf".
Can someone help with this? Thank you.
Solution
There is a simple syntax for disallowing a particular URL from proxying:
ProxyPass /blah/foo.swf !
ProxyPass /blah http://10.1.1.whatever
OTHER TIPS
For the record here's what I ended up with, roughly:
<VirtualHost *>
ServerName (testserver-dns)
ProxyRequests Off
ProxyPreserveHost On
<Proxy *>
Order deny,allow
Allow from all
</Proxy>
ProxyPass /path/to/swf !
ProxyPass / http://10.1.2.3/
ProxyPassReverse / http://10.1.2.3/
<Location />
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Location>
</VirtualHost>