Two web servers / One static IP

jdw52 · 08-13-2008, 08:05 AM

I just recently tried to set up a second apache web server behind a static ip address. I thought it would be as simple as setting up port forwarding through my router (using 8080) and then having the new web server listen on port 8080. But apparently not.

Looking for clues I turned to google but surprisingly did not find an answer to this. Is there some reason you cannot host two web servers in this manner?

I did find reference to modprobe and setting up a reverse proxy. That looks really cool and I'd like to try that some day. But that's yet another project on a very long project list.

Thanks for the help!

trickykid · 08-13-2008, 10:43 AM

This is how I did it once where I had one public static IP with two servers behind the router using private IP's. Setup one of the web servers as a main webserver listening on port 80 (default). Then setup the second one just like the main one with the default port 80 and on the main webserver that you have port 80 forwarding to, do something like this:

Code:

<VirtualHost *:80>
        ServerName www.yourdomain.com
        RewriteEngine     On
        RewriteRule       ^(.*)$        http://192.168.1.100$1  [P]
</VirtualHost>

Just substitute your ServerName with the domain you're hosting and then the RewriteRule http:// point to the IP Address of the other private web server you have running apache.

And you should actually be able to run apache on port 8080 for the second server, you just need to make sure the router forwards the request on port 8080 to the correct server listening on port 8080.