Thanks for that, I'll give it a try. Looks a lot easier :) Out of interest, what is the example below doing? The document referenced doesn't exist on the box in question, it is on an internal box, and the external facing box has a route in its routing table specifically for the internal box.
So, in some way it's deciding to pass requests in, and the below is the only uncommented reference to that box in all of httpd.conf. So either: a) I'm looking in the wrong file for the relevant interaction. b) Uh... something else :) All I know is that http://www.domain.co.uk/folder/page.html must be passed through somehow (indeed, the DMZ/Internal router has a whole NAT config for it), since page.html exists only on the internal server, not the external facing www one. Paul Cocker IT Systems Administrator IT Security Officer 01628 81(6647) TNT Post 1 Globeside Business Park Fieldhouse Lane Marlow Bucks SL7 1HY ________________________________ From: Victor Trac [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 24 November 2007 11:13 To: users@httpd.apache.org Subject: Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Redirecting to internal server On Nov 23, 2007 6:52 PM, Paul Cocker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi all, first time on the apache list so have mercy ;) I have been tasked with setting up a system whereby a Linux server running apache 2.0.59 in the DMZ takes requests on port 80 and then passes them through to an internal Windows server running IIS which actually hosts the HTML. Such a setup already exists (though it's Linux to Linux) so I thought this would be relatively easy to do, just copy the existing setup. People currently connect to http://www.domain.co.uk/folder/login.html and all is well. Searching the httpd.conf file I can find only one reference to folder, which is: <VirtualHost *:80> ServerAdmin [EMAIL PROTECTED] ServerName www.domain.co.uk DocumentRoot /var/www/html/domain RewriteEngine on RewriteRule ^/folder(.+) https://www.domain.co.uk/folder$1 [R,L] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_METHOD} ^(TRACE|TRACK) RewriteRule .* - [F] </VirtualHost> So we're using the rewrite module... except having read the documentation on this feature I cannot fathom it. I hoped that with the above I could simply add another line: RewriteRule ^/folder2(.+) https://www.domain.co.uk/folder2$1 [R,L] I then added a route for the relevant server so the traffic is routed to the internal network when its name is called. However, without really understanding the above I'm not in much of a position to progress further when this invariably fails to work. I don't know whether the above in any way relates to the name apache calls which then causes the call to be routed to server X. Any advice or guidance you can offer would be much appreciated. Paul Cocker IT Systems Administrator <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Your example is not rewriting to an internal server. You want to use mod_proxy. Let's say your windows box is 192.168.1.100, then you want something like this inside your VirtualHost directive: ProxyRequests off ProxyPass /folder2 http://192.168.1.100 ProxyPassReverse /folder2 http://192.168.1.100 With this, anytime someone visits your externally accessible site at http://www.domain.co.uk/folder2, they'll see the html output by your windows server at http://192.168.1.100 and your internal IIS host is never directly accessible from the internet. cheers, Victor -- http://www.victortrac.com TNT Post is the trading name for TNT Post UK Ltd (company number: 04417047), TNT Post (Doordrop Media) Ltd (00613278), TNT Post Scotland Ltd (05695897),TNT Post North Ltd (05701709) and TNT Post South West Ltd (05983401). Emma's Diary and Lifecycle are trading names for Lifecycle Marketing (Mother and Baby) Ltd (02556692). All companies are registered in England and Wales; registered address: 1 Globeside Business Park, Fieldhouse Lane, Marlow, Buckinghamshire, SL7 1HY. --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] " from the digest: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
