IIS / Apahce together or apart?

[illdill]

Hi all,

I have two win2003 servers, one running Apache. Apache serves on port 80 and IIS on port 81. Has any body experiemented with this type of configuration before?

Do you think it would be easier to run both Apache and IIS on the same machine? I am having some issues with this configuration which I have posted about before, but hadn't given much thought to other possibilities.

These issues are because I have 1 WAN IP.

Thanks.

 

[smah]

Is there some requirement to use both IIS & apache? Either is capable of serving multiple virtual hosts.

 

[illdill]

Yes, I want to have both MS 'Visual' environment (Windows), and an Apache/PHP environment (Open Source).

 

[smah]

That's fine. They should each operate independantly of the other without problems. However, whichever one is set to listen on port 81 will have to be specifically addressed with the port number when called from the client browser. I don't see why you couldn't run both on 1 machine, but if the resources are available, I'd try to keep them seperate.

 

[smah]

After noticing a couple other of your posts... are you still trying to have 1 be a proxy for the other?

 

[illdill]

Yes, I NEED to have the apache machine forward requests to the IIS machine, I have not yet beeen able to configure this succesfully visa versa.

Thanks...

 

[illdill]

Sorry, I mean I have not been able to configure the IIS server to succesfully forward requests to the Apache server.

 

[illdill]

Also, most of my development at this point is with PHP/Apache so I would like for this server to remain on the :80 port for obvious purposes...

 

[illdill]

AND... I need to hide the port extension 81) when forwarding requests. Otherwise people are like 'WTF?'

 

[illdill]

Well, I was able to get what I wanted in the end. I installed IIS after Apache, and apache works just fine proxying the request to IIS on port :81. You can see what I did here:

http://www.illdill.org/apache/apacheconfig.htm

Thanks...