Hi all,
Right now I've got a single computer that does all our webserving for us. It does this by virtually hosting 3 sites. I need to move one of these sites to an internal computer, but so its webpages can be viewed by the outside world. Thus, 3 websites: 2 on main server, 1 on computer inside LAN.

Right now, I've got the main webserver virtually hosting all 3 websites, can view the internal one internally no problem, but nobody can view it from the outside world. This is because in my /var/named/db.DOMAIN.NET, it points to 192.168.0.152, which is why everyone inside can see it, but nobody on the outside can.

This internal system must keep its 192.168.0.152 IP address and I haven't figured out how to forward anyone external trying to view WWW.DOMAIN.NET to 192.168.0.152.

Am I going about this the right way: have the main webserver host this internal domain, or should I also run named on the internal system? The problem is I can't just forward port 80 to 192.168.0.152, since the main server also hosts 2 other sites.
Any tips?? Is there a way I can point a particular directory on the main server to my other internal server? Like a link, so my main server virtually hosts DOMAIN.NET and points to directory /var/internal-server, and /var/internal-server points to 192.168.0.152??

registering,

Look at the apache module mod_proxy. It will allow the main server to send the request for one virtual host to another computer.

Good Luck,
chris

Thanks for the tip! It sounds like a reverse proxy is exactly what I was looking for.

Okay, for some reason my name server doesn't resolve the name properly. I'm using RH 7.2 w/apache 1.3. Below are my config files. For reference, www.AAA.org is the internally hosted website I want our main webserver to proxy/virtual host. www.BBB.com is our main webserver's domain name (also virtually hosted).

I figured I could tell our name server to send all requests for AAA.org to the same location as BBB.com. The db named file for BBB.com then uses an alias of AAA.org. That means they both go to the same address, and hands off all port 80 requests to apache. Apache then proxy serves BBB.org by sending all requests for that to the internal 192.168.0.152. However all I get from traceroute is "unknown host: www.AAA.org". Where is my thinking flawed? (more than 1 answer is allowed. ).

www.BBB.com works fine, but now www.AAA.org can't even be seen internally.

..........
LoadModule proxy_module modules/libproxy.so
..........
AddModule mod_proxy.c
..........
<VirtualHost *>
ServerName www.AAA.org
DocumentRoot /var/www/html

ProxyRequests Off

ProxyPass / http://192.168.0.152
ProxyPassReverse / http://192.168.0.152

</VirtualHost>



This is what's in /etc/named.conf:

.....................
zone "BBB.com" in {
type master;
file "db.BBB.com";
};

zone "AAA.org" in {
type master;
file "db.BBB.com";
};
....................


And this is what's in /var/named/db.BBB.com:


$TTL 3h
BBB.com. IN SOA ns1.BBB.com. root.BBB.com. (
2 ; Serial
3h ; Reresh after 3 hours
1h ; Retry after 1 hour
1w ; Expire after 1 week
1h ) ; Negative caching TTL of 1 day
;
; Name servers
;
BBB.com. IN NS ns1.BBB.com.
BBB.com. IN NS ns2.BBB.com.

;
; Addresses for the canonical names
;
localhost.BBB.com. IN A 127.0.0.1
ns1.BBB.com. IN A 12.170.Y.Z0
ns2.BBB.com. IN A 12.170.Y.Z1
grandpa.BBB.com. IN A 12.170.Y.Z2

BBB.com. IN MX 1 grandpa.BBB.com.
;
; Aliases
;
mail.BBB.com. IN CNAME grandpa.BBB.com.
ftp.BBB.com. IN CNAME grandpa.BBB.com.
www.BBB.com. IN CNAME grandpa.BBB.com.
www.AAA.org. IN CNAME grandpa.BBB.com.

Okaay, I think I found the problem. There were two of them:

1) named (at least my version) does not like 2 zones to use the same db file. I couldn't find this documented anywhere, but using identical -- but separate -- db files solved the problem

2) I forgot to add a "/" on the end of my ProxyPass command.

Changing the above SEEMS to have solved things.

Could someone please go to http://www.nerrenvirons.org and let me know if you see ANYTHING?? I can't test whether the world can see it when I'm behind our firewall (not that I know of, is there a way to do this??) Thanks for any help!

registering,

I get a three frame page titled NERR Telemetry. The left frame has home, graph, and help links. The frame in the right gives:
Warning: socket_connect() unable to connect [111]: Connection refused in /nerr/html/pages/stacked.php on line 1004
connect() failed. Reason: () Success
Unable to connect to socket

Have fun,
chris

edit: three frames left, top, right