FreeBSD port of mod_proxy_html is broken

Oct 13

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I’ve just submitted a bug report at freebsd.org.

Seems they’re shipping mod_proxy_html 3, but failing to install proxy_html.conf for their users.  That means it ships configured to do nothing, where mod_proxy_html 2.x would’ve done its job with W3C HTML or XHTML.  In other words, use it as a drop-in replacement for the previous version, and it stops working.

Add to that, they’re shipping version 3.0.0, which has a bug (fixed in 3.0.1) that segfaults in the absence of any ProxyHTMLLinks directive, and thus as-shipped with FreeBSD.

Any users wanting to fix this problem: all you have to do is grab the default proxy_html.conf and Include it into your httpd.conf, and mod_proxy_html is 3.x back to being a drop-in replacement for 2.x, but with new capabilities.

Posted on October 13, 2008, in apache, freebsd. Bookmark the permalink. 1 Comment.

  1. Kalle | October 31, 2008 at 9:43 am

    THANKS a LOT for this info 🙂

    My mod_proxy_html installation has been broken since I upgraded to 3.0.0 (and continued to be broken with 3.0.1) on my FreeBSD 6 – merging the proxy_html.conf into httpd.conf solved the problem 😀

    Cheers,
    Kalle Larsson

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