Apache virtual host containing a load balanced proxy configuration to GSCF running on Apache Tomcat 7.x

dbnp.org_studies.conf

<VirtualHost *:80>
        ServerName studies.dbnp.org
        ServerAlias gscf.dbnp.org

        ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/dbnp.org_gscf-studies-error.log
        CustomLog /var/log/apache2/dbnp.org_gscf-studies-access.log combined

        # disable gzip encoding for monitoring page
        <Location /monitoring>
                RequestHeader unset Accept-Encoding

                AuthType Basic
                Order deny,allow
                Deny from all

                AuthName "Restricted to Authorized users only"
                AuthUserFile /var/www/users
                AuthGroupFile /var/www/groups

                Require group nmcdsp
                Allow from env=allowed

                Satisfy any
        </Location>

        <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
                RewriteEngine on

                # keep listening for the serveralias, but redirect to
                # servername instead to make sure only one user session
                # is created (tomcat will create one user session per
                # domain which may lead to two (or more) usersessions
                # depending on the number of serveraliases)
                # see gscf ticket #321
                RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^studies.dbnp.org$ [NC]
                RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://studies.dbnp.org$1 [R=301,L]

                RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^studies.dbnp.org$ [NC]
                RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/gscf-www/ [NC]
                RewriteRule ^/gscf-www/(.*)$ /$1 [L,PT,NC,NE]
        </IfModule>

        <IfModule mod_proxy.c>
                <Proxy *>
                        Order deny,allow
                        Allow from all
                </Proxy>

                ProxyStatus On
                ProxyPreserveHost On
                ProxyPass / balancer://gscf-cluster/gscf-www/ stickysession=JSESSIONID|jsessionid nofailover=On
                ProxyPassReverse / balancer://gscf-cluster/gscf-www/
                ProxyPassReverseCookiePath /gscf-www /
                ProxyTimeout 900

                <Location />
                       SetOutputFilter proxy-html
                        ProxyHTMLDoctype XHTML Legacy
                       ProxyHTMLURLMap /gscf-www/ /
                </Location>

                <Proxy balancer://gscf-cluster>
                        #BalancerMember ajp://localhost:8009
                        BalancerMember http://11.22.33.44:8080
                </Proxy>
        </IfModule>
</VirtualHost>