On 4/17/07, Joshua Slive <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 4/17/07, detlev von davidson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > sharath reddy wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > How can i map URL to a file system on remote box? > > > > .. if my apache is running as www.example.com > > <http://www.example.com/test> , then if i want to serve content for > > www.example.com/test <http://www.example.com/test> from different box > > other than local server > > > > Any suggestions? > > presuming by "different box" you mean another webserver, mod_rewrite > comes to mind, and as it is, this link here (not all to deeply hidden in > the doc pages ;-) sports sort of a howto: > http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/misc/rewriteguide.html
is it possible to use mod_rewrite ,if the other box is not a web server ? I think he's actually looking for a reverse proxy. An introduction to
the topic is here http://www.apachetutor.org/admin/reverseproxies Joshua.
I went through reverse proxy documentation, can i use this reverse proxy solution, if i want to map URLs to remote file system which is not a webserver Thanks, Sharath
