Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2002 14:11:44 -0300 (ART) From: Fernando Gleiser <fgleiser@cactus.fi.uba.ar> To: Richard Lucas <rlucas@threeh.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: reverse proxy? Message-ID: <20020927140547.A81915-100000@cactus.fi.uba.ar> In-Reply-To: <015a01c26584$fc8fb4c0$3200a8c0@winblowz>
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On Thu, 26 Sep 2002, Richard Lucas wrote: > > From my research it looks as if squid can do part of what I need but from > what I've read it can only forward requests to one server. I need something > that can forward requests to multiple servers depending on what is > requested. For example, if someone requested www.bleh.com it would forward > internally to 192.168.0.10 and www.blah.net would forward to 192.168.0.11. I > guess basically a reverse proxy that can do something like name based > virtual hosting. You can do that with squid, you need to set httpd_accel_host to 'virtual' and do some other configuration tricks. It is very simple and easy to do. Read the squid configuration guide (available at www.squid-cache.org) for the details. > > Can this be done with apache? And if so could someone point me in the right > direction on how to set something like this up. I think you can do hat with apache, but based on my experience, squid gives you better performance. YMMV, of course. Fer > > Thanks in advance for any help you can give. > > > -Richard > > > 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
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