Re: [SPAM] Re: Apache VirtualHost to another machine

[John Nichel <jnichel by-tor com>]

From what I read, ProxyPass and ProxyPassReverse will only take from 
the path of a URL, and redirect it in one way or another....

http://www.somedomain.com/my_web/foo can be redirected to 
http://www.foo.com with an entry like this...

ProxyPass /my_web/foo http://www.foo.com

Which isn't what you're trying to do.  Did you look into ProxyRemote? 
That seems to be what you're looking for....

ProxyRemote http://www.somedomain.com http://www.thisdomain.com

You're probably gonna want to do it with an IP, or machine name, since 
the DNS for your second domain has the same IP as the first box...

ProxyRemote http://www.seconddomain.com 196.xxx.xxx.xxx

Otherwise, you'd be in a continual loop.  If you try to forward a 
request for seconddomain onto seconddomain, the DNS is going to point it 
back to the same IP address (main box)

Brad Alpert wrote:
> I did a LoadModule mod_proxy.so in Apache, which is a perfectly fine
> way to do it in 2.x, evidently.
>
> I did do ProxyPass and ProxyPassReverse with zero results. 
> Everything still came back to the original, main server instead of
> redirecting over to the target machine inside the network.
>
> I could run the domains from my main machine, but I don't want to
> have to do that.  That machine runs a lot of other stuff and I'd
> certainly like to offload webpages.  I don't think this is a
> horrendous request to ask of a mature webserver.  Evidently, it is.
>
> I'm going to proceed to Plan B now, which is to lose my will to live.
>
> :-)
>
> Thanks for the help in understanding.
>
> Brad
>
>
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> > Brad Alpert wrote:
> >
> > > ProxyPass and ProxyPass reverse contained in the VirtualHost
> > > directive allows you to masquerade a local directory to another
> > > machine.  What I need is a complete virtual presence from the
> > > inside server.  If VirtualHosts doesn't allow this, I am
> > > surprised.
> >
> > Did you compile apache with mod_proxy?
> >
> > I don't think ProxyPass[Reverse] is what you're looking for, as
> > these  handle direct path requests for the local server.
> > ProxyRemote seems to  be more along the lines of what you're
> > trying to do, as it is supposed  to map a URL to a remote host.
> >
> > http://httpd.apache.org/docs/mod/mod_proxy.html#proxyremote
> >
> > Is there some reason that you don't/can't run the domains from the
> > same box?
> >
> >
> > > And yes, IIS does allow the pointing of any number of inside IIS
> > > servers to a single, outside IP.  Before I migrated my stuff to
> > > over to RedHat, I had three internal domains externally
> > > represented over my single IP, each with their own registered
> > > domain name.  It's
> > > trivial, couple of mouse clicks and you're there.  IIS uses
> > > "host headers" which is analogous to virtual hosts.  Likewise,
> > > you can use fake internal IP's in IIS to do the same thing, as
> > > in Apache.
> >
> > It just seems strange that Microsoft would include a "proxy
> > server" in  with their web server....when they would normally
> > charge seperately for  both. :)
> >
> >
> > > This has to be doable in apache..  I can't believe there aren't
> > > people out there on apache running any number of internal
> > > virtual servers, addressable by unique domain name, from a
> > > single IP.
> >
> > I'm currently running 5 external domains on the same IP, but
> > they're all  on the same box.  My internal domains are on a
> > different box, have a  bogus IP, and only accessable from my
> > network (used mainly for dev  purposes).  I use the same DNS
> > servers to point to both, but the
> > internal names don't get announced to the outside world.


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