--- layout: post title: "Proxy only non-existing files with mod_proxy and mod_rewrite" date: 2011-06-10 14:20:43+00:00 tags: [apache] permalink: /blog/2011/6/10/proxy-only-non-existing-files-with-mod-proxy-and-mod-rewrite published: true author: name: Gergely Polonkai email: gergely@polonkai.eu --- Today I got an interesting task. I had to upload some pdf documents to a site. The domain is ours, but we don’t have access to the application server that is hosting the page yet. Until we get it in our hands, I did a trick. I enabled `mod_rewrite`, `mod_proxy` and `mod_proxy_http`, then added the following lines to my apache config: {% highlight apache %} RewriteEngine on RewriteRule ^/$ http://172.16.72.131:8080/ [QSA,L,P] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteRule ^/(.*) http://172.16.72.131:8080/$1 [QSA,L,P] Order allow,deny Allow from all {% endhighlight %} I’m not totally sure it’s actually secure, but it works for now.