Re: Apache delegation

For similar tasks, I have run apache with virtualhosting.  The virtual
host for a particular domain can be setup to proxy calls to another
ip/port.   Lately I have heard a lot of people preferring nginx for
this type of task.

On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 8:51 AM, Samir Faci <[email protected]> wrote:
> This is what I'm trying to do.... and let me know if its easily possible =
or not.
>
>
>
> big puffy internet cloud --> =A0 * DD-WRT * =A0 -->
> VirtualMachineServer--->| =A0.101 -> webapp1 =A0 .102 --> redmine =A0.103=
 ->
> joomla =A0 =A0|
>
> Lets say domain =3D candy.com
>
> so.. what I was thinking of doing is having a dedicated to various
> tasks like a mysql.candy.com =A0which isn't a big deal since
> I don't need that publicly accessible, ldap isn't an issue.. but if I
> want to host different web apps on different machines..
>
> I know I can do www.candy.com:80 =3D=3D webapp1 =A0 www.candy.com:81 =3D=
=3D
> redmine =A0 but that's messy....
>
> I wanted to setup an apache server that everything hits, that then
> forwards the queries to the appropriate one.. that renders or
> does what it needs to do.. and then retrieves the data and sends it
> back to client. =A0ie. =A0excuse my bad ascii art.
>
> a request would go something like....
>
>
> user1 type redmine.candy.com ----> wanIP --> firewall-->master
> apache.. =A0*oh, redmine is my .102 address * =A0--> =A0redmine apache
> *process.. do stuff return results to master apache --> master apache
> return result to user1.
>
> I'm trying to create what would normally be an apache cluster or some
> form, but with only one public IP, so I'm wondering if anyone had any
> thoughts if this was possible or how to accomplish this.
>
>
>
>
>
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>
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