Port Forwarding... mmm? 1

[SpeedDemon]

Hi all, I've got a problem and Im hoping to use apache to solve it...

Consider a simple network with a Win2K server connected to a linux machine running apache..

win2k : 192.168.0.1
redhat: 192.168.0.16

The Win2k machine is accessable from the internet. Now, If someone sends a port 80 request to the win2k machine, i'd like it to forward the connection to the redhat machine on the internal network and pass the response back to the user via the win2k machine.

Confused? I hope not

Ok, so now i have installed apache on the win2k machine as I thought I might be able to map incoming calls on port 80 to a different IP on the network (onto the redhat machine), im sure apache can do this, I just dont know how...

Please help!!

Thanks,

 

[ifincham]

Hi,

You should be able to a achieve this with the ProxyPass directive and mod_proxy. See -->

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

. Unless you setup a valid intranet 'hostname' on the W2K (e.g. in the HOSTS file) you'd have to use the IP address :

ProxyPass /whatever

http://192.168.0.16/whatever

Hope this helps

 

[SpeedDemon]

Perfect, thanks!