All - I asked this question a couple weeks ago and my topic was hijacked and never answered, so I figured I'd wait a little while and then ask again.
Here's my situation: I've got multiple Apache web servers running on different platforms (IBM POWER7, Red Hat, CentOS, Windows) and I want to setup a way for my users so that when they try to access one of the sites that is down for maintenance, they get a message like this: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Server Off-Line for Maintenance Our servers will be back on line on Monday, January 1, 2011 at 8:00 AM. Thank you for your patience. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ I was under the understanding that to do something like this I'd want to setup a 'front-end reverse proxy' server in front of all of these other servers to do this task. Is it a 'reverse proxy' I want to use here? Is it something else I should be setting up? And if anyone can then point me in the right direction for learning how to do this correctly (YouTube videos, books, PDFs, etc.), it would be greatly appreciated. Thank you, Charles cbuege (at) moreycorp (dot) com - if you would like to e-mail me back directly, feel free!! This e-mail, including attachments, may contain information that is confidential and/or proprietary, and may only be used by the person to whom this email is addressed. If the recipient of this e-mail is not the intended recipient or an authorized agent, the reader is hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution, or copying of this e-mail is prohibited. If this e-mail has been delivered to you in error, please notify the sender by replying to this message and deleting this e-mail immediately.
