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directive causes 302 redirects from your app server to be rewritten to point to the front-end proxy instead, so they continue to work properly.

For more recent versions of Apache (2.2+) you need to add the following:

ProxyPassReverseCookiePath /<contextPath> /

Why this doesn't always work

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Wicket 1.3 uses relative URLs, which neatly avoids this problem in the first place. Don't use setContextPath with Wicket 1.3, unless you're running a PortletApplication.For recent versions of Apache 2.2 and up you might want to add the following to get Authorized wicket sessions working correctly. This only applies to wicket 1.3 and up.

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