Gentoo Archives: gentoo-server

From: "Michael Stewart (vericgar)" <vericgar@g.o>
To: gentoo-server@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-server] Can Apache Proxy for a NAT'ed web-server
Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2005 01:31:31
Message-Id: 42D5BFF6.9050107@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-server] Can Apache Proxy for a NAT'ed web-server by Ow Mun Heng
1 Ow Mun Heng wrote:
2 >
3 > Yep.. Mod_rewrite can be used for this. Didn't think of that since I was
4 > thinking "Proxy" only.
5 >
6 > That being said, using mod_rewrite I can rewrite on-the-fly to the
7 > Nat'ed address. But what if the add has a DNS entry? Say
8 >
9 > www.example2.com and www.example1.com both has the same external IP (say
10 > 10.1.1.1)
11 >
12 > but www.example2.com is actually a NAT'ed server inside the firewall and
13 > behind apache? What then?
14 >
15
16 If I am understanding you correctly, vhosts should do the trick.
17
18 www.example1.com would be set up like a normal vhost
19 www.example2.com would be a vhost with just proxy directives in it:
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Re: [gentoo-server] Can Apache Proxy for a NAT'ed web-server Ow Mun Heng <Ow.Mun.Heng@×××.com>