Re: [gentoo-user] Apache RProxy setup

2005-04-06 Thread Patrick Marquetecken
Eric S. Johansson wrote: Leo wrote: Eric: I am not familiar with pound... My reverse proxy is only for web requests :) This is how i do it in the apache conf: ProxyPass /exchange/ http://SPBmail/exchange/ ProxyPassReverse /exchange/ http://SPBmail/exchange/ the second part is toward

[gentoo-user] Apache RProxy setup

2005-04-05 Thread Leo
Hi I use apache2 and mod_perl; I would like to setup a lightweight server (the default one on port 80) and a mod_perl enabled server (on the same machine) for processing the actual perl stuff. If I screw up perl I still have the static stuff available. There are also a series of benefits like

Re: [gentoo-user] Apache RProxy setup

2005-04-05 Thread Eric S. Johansson
Leo wrote: Is there a preferred *Gentoo* way setup this up? Any suggestions, pitfalls alerts, or comments are welcome. yea, use pound. the Apache reverse proxy has some nasty pitfalls which can leave you open to attack by spammers. i.e. they use your proxy to connect to other mail servers.

Re: [gentoo-user] Apache RProxy setup

2005-04-05 Thread Leo
Eric: I am not familiar with pound... My reverse proxy is only for web requests :) I want http://domain/perl/* to be proxied; I don't mind if my lightweight apache handles stuff like http://domain/imgs/logo.png That way my memory intensive perl app doesn't consume large amounts of memory for

Re: [gentoo-user] Apache RProxy setup

2005-04-05 Thread Eric S. Johansson
Leo wrote: Eric: I am not familiar with pound... My reverse proxy is only for web requests :) I want http://domain/perl/* to be proxied; I don't mind if my lightweight apache handles stuff like http://domain/imgs/logo.png That way my memory intensive perl app doesn't consume large amounts of

Re: [gentoo-user] Apache RProxy setup

2005-04-05 Thread Leo
Eric S. Johansson wrote: Leo wrote: Eric: I am not familiar with pound... My reverse proxy is only for web requests :) I am not sure if pound fits my requirements I understand. Yes, it will work, yes. it does fit your requirements. I'm just not sure how to set the configuration file. It's