On Wed, 15 Dec 2004, Chris Perreault wrote:
Is there an example, for squid pre 3, that shows this?
Not yet, but I have written a couple examples over the years available in the squid-users archives.
For example: 10.87.10.1 is one back end webserver and 10.87.10.2 is a second back end webserver. You desire to have people visit mysite.com/web1 and mysite.com/web2 to reach those origin servers.
Using regex and a matching directory on the origin servers (all content is
in 10.87.10.1/web1 on one server and all content is in 10.87.10.2/web2 on
the other server) it is simple to do a regex match. What if you wanted to
point to the root of the servers though and have mysite.com/web1 just point
to 10.87.10.2 and return addresses to the browser like
10.87.10.1/web1/files/goodstuff/index.htm when going to the actual server
directly that address would be 10.87.10.1/files/goodstuff/index.htm
For things to work smoothly you really want to make sure each web server can accept the exact same URL as the user is requesting from your reverse proxy. If you need to modify the URL while it is forwarded to the web server you are likely to sooner or later run into problems due to mismatches between what your webserver thinks is the correct URL and what your users actually should be requesting..
If you need to modify the requested URLs then this can be done with a redirector.
Regards Henrik
