On Thu, 26 Sep 2002, Richard Lucas wrote:
>
> From my research it looks as if squid can do part of what I need but from
> what I've read it can only forward requests to one server. I need something
> that can forward requests to multiple servers depending on what is
> requested. For example, if someone requested www.bleh.com it would forward
> internally to 192.168.0.10 and www.blah.net would forward to 192.168.0.11. I
> guess basically a reverse proxy that can do something like name based
> virtual hosting.
You can do that with squid, you need to set httpd_accel_host to 'virtual'
and do some other configuration tricks. It is very simple and easy to do.
Read the squid configuration guide (available at www.squid-cache.org) for
the details.
>
> Can this be done with apache? And if so could someone point me in the right
> direction on how to set something like this up.
I think you can do hat with apache, but based on my experience, squid
gives you better performance. YMMV, of course.
Fer
>
> Thanks in advance for any help you can give.
>
>
> -Richard
>
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