Soner Tari wrote:
Hi All,
On my network, ASP sites are served on a Microsoft IIS, and PHP sites
are on OpenBSD Apache, and there is only one Internet connection with a
single IP (all DNS records point to this IP). Since these web servers
run on different hardware/IPs, I need to distribute http requests based
on the requested URL, thus I think I need a reverse http proxy (Q1: am I
right?) running on my firewall (OpenBSD, of course).
So I've found Pound v2.2. I think it works fine, does the job, and is
very simple to configure, with a caveat being that I had to build
openssl again with threads enabled.
I also thought that Apache in reverse proxy mode could do the job, but I
failed to have OpenBSD httpd running in that mode. (Q2: could somebody
point me to a help page which describes how to do that?) (Note that
http://www.apachetutor.org/admin/reverseproxies deals with Apache 2
only. And I'm not sure that would help anyway.)
I could not find another reverse proxy package among OpenBSD
ports/packages (Q3: is there any other reverse proxy package?).
Probably, there is another (or the right) way of doing all this (Q4:
could somebody give any hint?).
Thanks,
Works for me..the simple incarnation is:
<VirtualHost *>
ServerName external.somehost.com
ProxyRequests Off
ProxyPass / http://internal.somehost.com/
ProxyPassReverse / http://internal.somehost.com/
ErrorLog logs/external.somehost.com.com/error_log
CustomLog logs/external.somehost.com/access_log common
</VirtualHost>
You will have to tweak to have multiple proxypass directives to handle
the 2 websites.. but should work no problem.
This OpenBSD 3.9, stock apache, no recompiling anything.
The only hiccup is https... I did get it working with https, but the
whole certificate thing takes a bit of bending the brain around!
Good luck.
Steve Williams
