cPanel+Litespeed+Proxied mod_perl

[sip]

Hello,

I switched to LSWS and found it excellent. Soon another server is going to be switched. Both are primarily php sites.

I have one cPanel server where few of our own sites are running under proxied mod_perl on port82 using mod_proxy of apache. While trying to migrate our own server to LSWS we had issues with those sites.

Is there a How to for this to get working (i can contact DC and tell them to take a look) so that sooner or later i can migrate this server to LSWS with proxied mod_perl Apache.

cPanel default Apache + proxied mod_perl Apache works fine.

[ffeingol]

Do the proxied mod_perl pages have a common extension?

[sip]

Alias /perl passes to (using mod_proxy) mod_perl apache running 1.3x httpd and 1.29/1.3 mod_perl
Extension is cgi and url's have query string also

so script.cgi?t=something;sid=;page=xyz.html
or could just be script.cgi (normally on POST)

[mistwang]

LiteSpeed can pass certain request to backend Apache running on a different port.

http://www.litespeedtech.com/docs/we...HandledContent

For example, you have Apache run on port 78, in LiteSpeed, "Apache Port Offset" is set to "2", so LiteSpeed will run on port 80, if set "Apache Handled Content" to ".cgi", LiteSpeed will forward all requests with suffix "cgi" to backend Apache.

It probably is different from your current setup, which the second Apache mod_perl instance probably is not managed by cPanel, but a custom Apache setup. LiteSpeed setup have everything controlled by cPanel sharing the same httpd.conf.

Make sure to set SSL port to 441 to make LiteSpeed use port 443.

[sip]

Yes it's a custom compile and not cPanel's Apache as it's an overkill to run mod_perl from same instance of apache. So this is not possible i guess as of now?

[mistwang]

You can use rewrite rule to tell LSWS to proxy request to the target Apache instance.
What you need to do is to define a "Web Server" external application from LSWS web console, with name of "127.0.0.1:82". Then define a rewrite rule like

RewriteRule (.*)\.cgi$ http://127.0.0.1:82/$1 [P]

If you wrote the above code then the perl side of your question should be easy. Continuing in the same vane just add another hash that points to the URI of an image file. The javascript code I cant help with.