Bug 60073

Summary: mod_proxy and ProxyRemote seems to do direct Connections in 503 Backend errors
Product: Apache httpd-2 Reporter: Markus <markus.rietzler>
Component: mod_proxyAssignee: Apache HTTPD Bugs Mailing List <bugs>
Status: RESOLVED LATER    
Severity: normal Keywords: MassUpdate
Priority: P2    
Version: 2.2.31   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: PC   
OS: All   

Description Markus 2016-08-31 13:54:42 UTC 
We have setup Apache with mod_proxy, requests to http://10.10.1.1/application should be internal proxied/forwarded to http://10.10.2.1:57211/app

ProxyRequests Off
ProxyRemote * http://10.10.1.2:8084

ProxyPass /application  http://10.10.2.1:57211/app
ProxyPassReverse /application  http://10.10.2.1:57211/app


Special use case is, that the requests have to be forwareded through Firewall and squid-proxy. 

-> 10.10.1.1/application (Apache) -> Firewall -> 10.10.1.2 (squid Proxy) -> 10.10.2.1:57211/app (target Apache)


We now have one error Situation:

if there is an error 503 (backend error?) i see the following lines in error_log

[Wed Aug 31 06:13:43 2016] [error] [client 10.10.1.50] proxy: Error reading from remote server returned by /application
[Wed Aug 31 06:16:52 2016] [error] (110)Connection timed out: proxy: HTTP: attempt to connect to 10.10.2.1:57211 failed
[Wed Aug 31 06:16:52 2016] [error] ap_proxy_connect_backend disabling worker for (10.10.2.1)


the Problem now is: if there is an error 503 my Apache seems to try to directly Access the backend. in this case i get an error_log in the Firewall and the request is dropped.

how can i prevent mod_proxy with proxyremote directive to not in any case try to connect direct. it should allways try to use the squid-proxy. even if there is a backend or (squid-)Proxy error.

Markus
Comment 1 William A. Rowe Jr. 2018-11-07 21:09:59 UTC 
Please help us to refine our list of open and current defects; this is a mass update of old and inactive Bugzilla reports which reflect user error, already resolved defects, and still-existing defects in httpd.

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