Hello Urko,

On 09/03/2010, at 09:59, Urko Masse wrote:

> I am using Cherokee for a while now for Moodle, and it's working really well. 
> However, we are running out of external IP addresses (we run a few more web 
> servers in our school that need to be externally accessible).
> 
> So I think I need to run a Reverse Proxy, get our DNS registrations to point 
> to the same external IP address, and configure Cherokee to redirect requests 
> as needed to the rest of the web servers. But... I have never done it, and 
> I'm not even sure if "Reverse Proxy" does what I think it does.
> I have also heard about Varnish, and I wonder if that is what I'm looking for.
> 
> In other words: We want to have one external IP address for all our web 
> servers. But keep those web servers in different physical servers internally. 
> How do I do it? :)

Yes, you need to use the Reverse HTTP Proxy in your current Cherokee server.

First of all, check out the documentation¹, the basics are explained in there.
Do not hesitate to get back if you needed further assistance.

Good luck!


¹ http://www.cherokee-project.com/doc/modules_handlers_proxy.html

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