Configuring multiple ProxyPassReverseCookiePath in Apache HTTP

Question

I have a server with an Apache reverse proxy in front. The server machine contains 2 web applications running under:

• localhost:8000/app and exposed as my.url.com/app1
• localhost:8001/app and exposed as my.url.com/app2

They are essentially different versions of the webapp and we want them both up. Both webapps create a cookie like so:

Set-Cookie: sessionid=as7d86fa98sg67; Path=/app; HttpOnly

Note that there is no Domain property on the cookie header.

I have added 2 different ProxyPassReverseCookiePath directives like so:

• ProxyPassReverseCookiePath /app /app1
• ProxyPassReverseCookiePath /app /app2

The goal is that each webapp will have its Path=/app transformed to the appropriate context. However the ProxyPassReverseCookiePath directives seem to override one another and don't have awareness of the webapp they run for.

TL;DR:

ProxyPass /app1/ http://localhost:8000/app/ ProxyPassReverse /app1/ http://localhost:8000/app/ ProxyPassReverseCookiePath /app /app1 ProxyPass /app2/ http://localhost:8001/app/ ProxyPassReverse /app2/ http://localhost:8001/app/ ProxyPassReverseCookiePath /app /app2 

This configurations works, except for the cookie path property. For both cases it gets replaced with Path=/app1/ whereas I'd like it to be specific to each app that handles the request.

Answer 1

After searching around the solution is to group the directives under a <Location> tag:

<Location /app1> ProxyPassReverseCookiePath /app /app1 </Location> <Location /app2> ProxyPassReverseCookiePath /app /app2 </Location> 

This way Apache knows to properly apply each directive depending on the origin of the response.