I sort of vaguely remember seeing somehwere that apache could act as some
sort of proxy and redirect virtual hosts to other internal machines (and
I'm assuming back out transparantly), but that could just be wishful
thinking.
Anyone know about something like this?
charles
On Tue, 22 Feb 2000, Igmar Palsenberg wrote:
>
>
> > Does anyone have some sample IPCHAINs rules to forward http requests
> > to
> > multiple web servers on a private network, based on the requested
> > domain?
> > I know that's not very clear, so let me explain a little
> > better: lets
> > say 192.168.0.10 and 192.168.0.11 are webservers on the internal
> > network. The DNS for www.mydomain.com and www.myotherdomain.com both
> > point to my IPCHAINs box. Whenever joe user pulls up his web browser and
> > goes to www.mydomain.com, the IPCHAINs box routes to 192.168.0.10 on the
> > inside, whenever joe user pulls up his browser and goes to
> > www.myotherdomain.com, the IPCHAINs box routes to 192.168.0.11 on the
> > inside.
>
> Simply : No
>
> The only way that a webserver is able to know which domain it needs to
> server is with a HTTP 1.1 header. (I'm not in the mood to explain the HTTP
> 1.1 header :-)))
>
> ipchains has no knowledge of the HTTP protocol, so can't redirect on
> domain.
>
> No real solutions to this, execpt using multiple outside IP's.
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