Apache redirections
 

Hi,

My internal network is behind a NAT. I have a main machine (call it A) that I use as an Apache server on port 80 for several sites (say mysite1.com, mysite2.com). Because of the NAT, any request on port 80 will have to go to a single machine no matter the site requested.

I intend to distribute the charge and have one machine for each site (call it B and C). I'm using virtual machines, so it should not be a problem to find them :-)

I would like a way of redirecting the requests depending of the site. For example, if A receives a request for mysite1.com it will send it to machine B, and if A receives a request for mysite2.com it will send it to machine C. I hope I've not been too confusing...

Thanks a lot,

G

You can do this by configuring machine a as a reverse proxy to forward the requests on to the other servers.

Within each virtual host definition on machine a, you would add an entry
This would then pass all requests for that virtual host to the new server.

Thanks, makes sense.

So if i understand you, machine A would only redirect the traffic with the Apache application.

Could it be used for a domain and subdomains? I would like to redirect *.mysite1.com to machine B with a single rule, not just www.mysite1.com (same for mysite2.com), as I have www.mysite1.com, photos.mysite1.com, blog.mysite1.com,...

And is it possible to do it with a more lightweight server than Apache? Seems a bit overkill for the task.

Thanks a lot!

G