apache routing 1

[quantumMoose]

Is it possible to set apache [or some other program] up as a router on a machine that processes the incomming requests on port 80 and redirects them around thet network based on the requested domain name. Eg, if I'm running a two webserver machines on one IP address, and i have all requests to xyz.com redirected to serverA, and requests to abc.com redirected to serverB.

ANY pointers apprecitated,

-Seamus

 

[blizz]

Hello,

Maybe forward port 80 request to another port on you second server using mod_rewrite and mod_proxy.

#apache httpd.conf

LoadModule rewrite_module libexec/httpd/mod_rewrite.so
...
LoadModule proxy_module libexec/httpd/libproxy.so
...
AddModule mod_proxy.c
...
AddModule mod_rewrite.c

Near the end of the httpd.conf, virtual host section:

<VirtualHost *:80>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^/(.*)$

http://127.0.0.1:8080/$1

[P]
</VirtualHost>

This simply takes every request on port 80 of

http://www.yourserver.com,

and proxies it to

http://127.0.0.1:8080/.

Regards
Blizz

http://www.blizzards.info

 

[quantumMoose]

I think this could be close to what I want, I dont fully understand the rewrite syntaxing (the doco is huge), but perhaps you could point me how to redirect to 127.0.0.2 if the domain contains freehost.com for example.
I think it could be like ^freehost.com/(.*) 127.0.0.1
however what are all the $ for?

-Seamus

 

[blizz]

Hi,

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/misc/rewriteguide.html

explains the uses of.

RewriteRule ^/(.*)

http://123.abc.com:%{SERVER_PORT}

What it means:

! - negation
^ - start of string
$ - end of string
. - any character
? - repetition [0,1]
* - repetition [0,..,n]
+ - repetition [1,..,n]
\ - escape character
[NC] - ignore case
[R,L] - redirect, last



Blizz

http://www.blizzards.info