Hello there,

I have a debian sarge box working as gateway some machines. I need to redirect a url, eg www.mypage1.com to www.anothersite.com

So far i have managed to redirect an url to a specific ip address. But sometimes there are several urls pointing to the same ip.

Here is what im using

Any ideas ?

Thanks in advance.

When you are using virtual hosts (several different hosts on the same IP address), web servers know how to differentiate by looking at the host header in the request. iptables can't do that, so you won't be able to use that.

Are we talking about URLs in the sense of forwarding requests to the proper web server? Can't you just use virtual hosts within Apache to take care of that? That way www.mypage1.com and www.anothersite.com, on the same IP address, can have different content based on the hostname.

I'm not exactly clear on what your purpose is, so I'm not really sure what else to suggest.

Thanks for the reply,

The linux box is working as proxy, firewall and mailserver. The user wants to be able to redirect certain web pages to other url's.

The idea is to be able to redirect any url to any other url... eg. when the user types www.a.com, redirect him to www.b.com. Because www.a.com and www.b.com can be anything, and will be changing all the time i need to be able to use url's and not ip's.

I was reading iptables man and DNAT only accepts an ip address, but there should be another way to do it.