Glassfish3 Apache mod_proxy_ajp and missing headers

Question

I got Apache 2.2.22 with mod_proxy and mod_proxy_ajp. Here is my configuration of mod_proxy:

 ProxyRequests Off ProxyPreserveHost On ProxyErrorOverride On ProxyPass / ajp://localhost:8009/ ProxyPassReverse / http://www.myservice.com/ 

Generally it works fine but when you look at logs of mod_proxy you can see that few http headers are missing.

Header[0] [Host] = [www.myservice.com] Header[1] [User-Agent] = [Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:23.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/23.0] Header[2] [Accept] = [text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8] Header[3] [Accept-Language] = [q=0.94,en-US;q=0.88,en;q=0.82,en-EN;q=0.76,fr-FR;q=0.71,fr;q=0.65,en-GB;q=0.18,ru;q=0.12,en-PL;q=0.06] Header[4] [Accept-Encoding] = [gzip, deflate] Header[5] [Cookie] = [_ga=GA1.2.190053753.1379368584; JSESSIONID=2f9c23613e546d91f2f59b6e4d81] 

But the problem is that there is no header REMOTE_ADDR and my Glassfish3 server can't detect request's remote address and returns null.

I'm not sure but maybe the problem is not with mod_proxy but with glassfish.

Answer 1

i dont know how much googling your did, but "apache proxy real ip" gave me some interesting results.

please read this q&a; if it doesnt help, make a comment below, thanx

Answer 2

I resolve this problem by setting extra header X-Forwarded-For to user's remote address.

 RewriteCond %{REMOTE_ADDR} (.*) RewriteRule .* - [E=SEQ_ADDR:%1] RequestHeader set X-Forwarded-For %{SEQ_ADDR}e 

And than using simple Filter in an application to read this header's value.