.htaccess doesn't target .cfm requests proxied to Tomcat

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For those who stumble across this in the future. It seems like directives in the Apache configuration file httpd.conf are effective in the mod_proxied (Lucee) requests, but those in the .htaccess aren’t!

For example, this code block:

<Location /lucee>
    Require ip 123.123.123.123
</Location>

Is not effective in .htaccess but is effective httpd.conf (/etc/apache2/apache2.conf).

Moreover, with ErrorDocument directives… like this:

ErrorDocument 403 "Get out of here, you asshole!"

They are not effective in .htaccess or httpd.conf configuration structures without an additional directive (in httpd.conf):

<IfModule mod_proxy.c>
ProxyErrorOverride On
</IfModule>

This tells Apache to honour its own Error handling philosophy and will thus respect the ErrorDocument rules. [Source]

The above applies to this config:
Lucee 5.3.7.47 (Oct 29, 2020)
Ubuntu 20 with VirtualMin
Amazon EC2 instance