Redirect requests

[teamakesmefart]

Hi All

I have two domains which have the same IP address. When requests come in, my firewall redirects the request to a web server - A Win32 machine running Apache ver 2.0.

This is a live server, servicing requests for one of my sites.

I have recently started developing a new site which uses a whole different set of technologies (Tomcat, JSPs, database connectivity etc). Because of this, and because everything is experimental on the server, I'm likely to be stopping and restarting services on a regular basis. So I decided to keep the new site on a completely different machine ... so I set up a Linux server running Apache and Tomcat.

What I would like to do is get Machine A to service all requests for Domain A itself (which it already does) - but pass all requests for Domain B on to Machine B. It may also be useful on occassion to be able to redirect the request to a particular port on Machine B

Is this possible and can somebody tell me how it is done please?


Many thanks in advance
Pete
Devon, UK

 

[siberian]

At the simplest level do this.

1) Push all requests to Machine A (Apache 2)
2) Define a virtual host for each site on Machine A
3) For the tomcat site instead of having a DocumentRoot on Machine A, define a ProxyPass configuration that passes all of these requests to Machine B

Take a look in that Apache docs for ProxyPass and ProxyPassReverse, very simple command

ProxyPass / [URL unfurl="true"]http://10.0.0.10[/URL]
ProxyPassReverse / [URL unfurl="true"]http://10.0.0.10[/URL]

This allows you to have one IP serving multiple sites that may or may not be on the apache 2 server.