multiple machines using one address 2

[venkman]

I was wondering if there was a way to setup apache so that it forwarded requests for a certain directory to another machine. The problem I am trying to solve is this: I have two linux boxes behind a gateway that ip-masquerades them at home. one pc serves my personal website and email, the other is for personal uses like surfing the web and experimenting with. I would like to access the second using webmin with ssl, and be able to access the first using ssl also (so that I can check my email). This would be easy to solve using port forwarding; however, my company blocks all connections that are not on 80 or 443, so both machines have to share 443. Assuming my web server is at

http://www.myserver.com,

I would like to be able to access webmin on the second machine by say typing in:

https://www.myserver.com/webmin/,

and access my email on the first machine by typing

https://www.myserver.com/horde/

.To do this I would need all initial requests to be forwarded to the first machine, and then if the request is for the directory /webmin/ they would then be masqueraded/forwarded to the second machine. Is there a way to do this?? What about using a different domain name instead .... so rather than

https://www.myserver.com/webmin,

it would be

https://webmin.myserver.com/

. Is there a way to setup a linux box as a gateway that forwards based on domain name as opposed to ip address? What about apache, can that be setup to do this?

-Venkman

 

[usige]

In this case you could use the reverse proxy function of mod_proxy. On the first server I beleive the directives would be something like the following:

<Location /webmin>
  ProxyPass [URL unfurl="true"]https://second-server.myserver.com/webmin[/URL]
  ProxyPassReverse [URL unfurl="true"]https://second-server.myserver.com/webmin[/URL]
  ...
</Location>

This might need to be tweaked a little. It's been a while since I've used mod_proxy and I don't remeber the exact syntax.

 

[venkman]

I have yet to implement it yet, but it looks like proxypass was the right idea, based on these links:

http://www.linuxfocus.org/English/March2000/article147.html

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/mod/mod_proxy.html#proxypassreverse

I'll report back when I give it a try, but for now here's a star .

-Venkman

 

[venkman]

I got it to work proxypass and proxypassreverse. The only problem is that webmin references things by absolute path, which means that when it tries to call /blah.script it calls it on the original server rather than at the proxied server (which would have the path of /webmin/blah.script). To solve this problem I changed the dns entries and virtual hosts around. Now, if you access

http://www.mywebsite.com

you get the main website, but if you access mypc.mywebsite.com you get webmin runing on the other machine.

Thanks again for your help.

-Venkman