using regex for proxypass

Question

I'm trying to set up a proxy to my corporate environment's ActiveMQ admin pages on our standard http proxy server. I have a rule in place that allows me access to the admin landing page:

ProxyPass /foobar hostname:8161/admin

ProxyPassReverse /foobar hostname:8161/admin

However, going to the "queues" page bring me to a different page appended with a unique session ID (admin/queues.jsp;jsessionid=oq37zgvxz4zkwliwdwddyon3), and I would like for this page to be accessible through the same URL as well.

Attempting to add a wildcard (*) at the end of these proxypass rules breaks the redirect. Is there a redirect rule that I need to use in conjunction with this, and how do I get any string to this host to pass through this proxy rule?

Answer 1

There is ProxyPassMatch that is regex based, but ProxyPass does prefix matching (ie a ProxyPass for /foo should catch /foo/bar too) so your current rule should work anyway.

It may be that the redirection URL doesn't match the reverse rule for some reason. I have to admit I've never managed to get a ProxyPass to Tomcat to work correctly when the front and back end context paths differ, so my advice would be to deploy the back end app at hostname:8161/foobar instead of /admin if that's an option.