From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 26 9:44:18 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from unix.megared.net.mx (megamail.megared.com.mx [207.249.162.252]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C60F152B7 for ; Wed, 26 Jan 2000 09:44:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ales@megared.net.mx) Received: from ales (ales.megared.net.mx [207.249.163.251]) by unix.megared.net.mx (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id LAA41427; Wed, 26 Jan 2000 11:41:10 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from ales@megared.net.mx) Message-ID: <01ca01bf6824$d05361a0$fba3f9cf@megared.net.mx> From: "Alejandro Ramirez" To: "Erik de Zeeuw" , References: <388F26DE.A43A02A9@usishealth.com> Subject: RE: Web URL based redirection Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2000 11:43:11 -0600 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2314.1300 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, Try the Apache mod_rewrite, I have never used it, but it does what you want: http://www.apache.org/docs/mod/mod_rewrite.html Hve Fun... Ales ----- Original Message ----- From: Erik de Zeeuw To: Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2000 10:54 AM Subject: Web URL based redirection > Hi, > > I'm in the process of converting a Window$ NT based web > application server into a cluster of FreeBSD machines, > for both performance and long term usage, as well as > personal satisfaction to see little daemons everywhere :) > > The problem is I can't just replace everything. I'll have > to replace all this on an application basis. So I have to > keep the actual NT server for the original applications. > > For now, applications are used with an URL like > > http://www.company.com/application > > And I would like to setup things so that the applications > which are on the FreeBSD server can also be accessed the > same way. > > I already install a FreeBSD/IPFilter firewall between the > web server and the internet. > > So the question is what software should I use on the > firewall > to forward requests to http://company.com/NTapplication to > the NT server, and forwarding > http://company.com/BSDapplication > to the FreeBSD server ? > > I guess it sounds like the software should be a proxy, but > it may not be necessary to install a full proxy to just > forward url requests to the machine they belong. > > Note that some applications uses secure http (https) so the > software has to support it. > > Thanks for reading, > Erik > > PS. I recently moved to Austin, TX. So if there are some > Austin > FreeBSD users outthere, let me know :) > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message