I have a small router/server running Slackware 11 with dnsmasq/iptables for the routing, and hostapd for wireless ap purposes. It's at the same time my very own email server.

I want to set it up with squirrelmail so that I can access my mail from the web, and another machine behind the router to serve my webpage.

I've registered a domain name, let's call it homeserver.com.

What i want is for the server to redirect a web browser request to www.homeserver.com to the machine hosting my webpage(OS X 10.4 w/apache), and mail.homeserver.com to the server itself, running squirrelmail. Can this be done?

In advance, thanks!

check our mod_proxy on apache, the proxypass and reverseproxypass attributes in particular.

I will look into it. I thought this had to be resolved by some dns magic, but then again, I'm somewhat new to all this..

In fact, i hoped this could be resolved by dns, as i would then be able to ssh directly into the web hosting machine.. Well!

OK, it seems like this will work for http requests. But, as I somewhat stated in my last post, I want every request routed according to hostname. This, I guess, can only be done using DNS, right?
Sorry for asking all these questions, but i figured this was the place to look for answers!

hostnames only exist within a few protocols, like http. other protocols have no concept of a hostname once said hostname has been converted to anip address by the client.

You can route requests for www to one IP address and mail to another, but having said that, chances are very good that you only have one public IP address. In that case, the IP for www and mail would have to be the same to the internet.

If you happen to have multiple real world IP addresses, then you can do it with DNS alone. You can also set up an internal DNS, but that won't help your ability to reach either box from the outside world.

Peace,
JimBass

Thanks, everyone. And you're right, JimBass, I only have one public IP. Seems like modproxy is the way to go!