On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 9:22 PM, Chris Arnold <carn...@electrichendrix.com>wrote:
> On Feb 18, 2012, at 7:08 PM, Yehuda Katz <yeh...@ymkatz.net> wrote: > > On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 4:40 PM, Chris Arnold <carn...@electrichendrix.com > > wrote: > >> Apache2.2.3 on SLES10. I was hoping my firewall (sonicwall tz180w >> enhanced software) would do this but it looks like it might not. We have 4 >> servers with private ip's and our firewall has 1 public ip. These servers >> run different services like mail, web and the other things. We are looking >> at another service (ticketing system) that can not run on but port 80. Port >> 80 is on the a different server. I need to know if apache is able to see an >> dns address and forward to the correct server. Example: >> http://cloudservice.domain.com on port 80 and >> http://mailservice.domain.com on port 80 (these are different servers >> with private ip's). Can apache see the xxx://cloudservice.xx.com and >> forward to the correct server versus xxx://mailservice.xxx.com. >> I hope what i need is clear as i am having a hard time describing it. >> Basically, i need same port to go to different servers based on the dns >> address from the outside (public ip). >> > > You could set up a single instance of Apache that acts as a reverse proxy > to the other servers. > For example: > <VirtualHost cloudservice.example.com:80> > ServerName cloudservice.example.com > ProxyPass / http://192.168.1.10/ > ProxyPassReverse / http://192.168.1.10/ > </VirtualHost> > <VirtualHost mailservice.example.com:80> > ServerName mailservice.example.com > ProxyPass / http://192.168.1.11/ > ProxyPassReverse / http://192.168.1.11/ > </VirtualHost> > > Note that I did not test these configs, this is just a sample. You will > probably want some kind of security (SSL, maybe using SNI if you do not > have clients using IE or Chrome on Windows XP.) > http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/mod_proxy.html#<http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/mod_proxy.html#proxypassreverse> > > > Thanks for the reply. Should I be able to add the above directive to my > vhost.conf file or do I need to install and config mod_proxy? I looked in > yast->software management and do not see a mod_proxy. Best I can remember, > you have to install the mod_*. > mod_proxy is included in the default installation of HTTPD, I don't think openSUSE would have removed it, so there is no separate package to install. You should be able to copy those into vhost.conf, but as I said, I have not tested them. If you try it and have further questions, just post back here.
