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Vitrual Hosts Based on DNS

Here is the issue...

   I have two different webservers sitting behind my ASL 4. They are 2 totally different boxes with 2 different internal ips. Both webservers are running websites that need to be accessable on port 80.

I only have one public ip address.

I want to be able to setup virtual hosts on the ASL which will  redirect to the proper internal server(s) based upon the dns associated with the request from the public side

can asl do this and if so how??

thanks

Asher

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0 Xeno over 22 years ago

You can not do this with ASL.
BUT you could use the Apache-Reverse-Proxy-function

Hope that will help you.

Greetings
Xeno
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0 BeerCan over 22 years ago in reply to Xeno

Hi,
I am new here and just setting up Astaro.  I too am interested in doing somthing like this.  Could we just not use squid as an http accelerator?
Is that possible and would it solve this issue?

Thanks for a great product Astaro.  I

BC
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0 SecApp over 22 years ago in reply to BeerCan

Xeno's right; both server's would have the same IP in DNS, but the additional informaation passed from a client browser's web server query would tell the web server which of the two sites they really want to see.

So it's not really a firewall issue, but a web server configuration one...

Note: querying by IP address can only get you one of the two servers; but who does that?
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0 BeerCan over 22 years ago in reply to SecApp

I guess what I was saying/asking  is:
I thought that squids http accelerator function was the same as a reverse proxy.  ( I could be wrong) and if it is could we not configure it to do what we want?  Or is the squid version on Astaro limited in some way?

Thanks

BC
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0 SecApp over 22 years ago in reply to BeerCan

Sorry, I'm not a Squid guru; I will have to defer to the expertise of others here...
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0 SecApp over 22 years ago in reply to BeerCan

Sorry, I'm not a Squid guru; I will have to defer to the expertise of others here...
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0 uncue75 over 21 years ago in reply to SecApp

[ QUOTE ]
I guess what I was saying/asking  is:
I thought that squids http accelerator function was the same as a reverse proxy.  ( I could be wrong) and if it is could we not configure it to do what we want?  Or is the squid version on Astaro limited in some way?

Thanks

BC

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using http accelerator functionality as you describe is not the same as a http reverse proxy.  A reverse proxy is used for protecting your webserver from malicious requests.  basically all the incoming http requests are sent to the proxy.  the proxy then filters out known bad requests.  it also checks the length of anything after the ? in the url.  This is not a function that can be setup through the ASL Admin tool.  I'm not sure if squid supports it as I have never tired to use squid as a reverse proxy.

hope that helps clarify....
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