On Wed, Jan 03, 2007 at 03:11:31PM +0200, Soner Tari wrote: > Hi All, > > On my network, ASP sites are served on a Microsoft IIS, and PHP sites > are on OpenBSD Apache, and there is only one Internet connection with a > single IP (all DNS records point to this IP). Since these web servers > run on different hardware/IPs, I need to distribute http requests based > on the requested URL, thus I think I need a reverse http proxy (Q1: am I > right?) running on my firewall (OpenBSD, of course).
At least, a reverse proxy would be one way of doing this; not sure it's the only one (configuring Apache to pass queries for .asp to IIS might be possible, although it's unlikely to be efficient). > So I've found Pound v2.2. I think it works fine, does the job, and is > very simple to configure, with a caveat being that I had to build > openssl again with threads enabled. I was going to answer 'why? Use the package', but this isn't in ports. I was convinced it was, maybe someone posted a port to ports@ but it never got committed? Rebuilding OpenSSL might not be the best idea, really. > I also thought that Apache in reverse proxy mode could do the job, but I > failed to have OpenBSD httpd running in that mode. (Q2: could somebody > point me to a help page which describes how to do that?) (Note that > http://www.apachetutor.org/admin/reverseproxies deals with Apache 2 > only. And I'm not sure that would help anyway.) I can't help with that, but Apache should be able to do this. > I could not find another reverse proxy package among OpenBSD > ports/packages (Q3: is there any other reverse proxy package?). Yes; squid comes to mind, but there are others (maybe tinyproxy, transproxy, or one of the other ports can be used; take a look at 'make search key=proxy' in /usr/ports, or ports.openbsd.nu). > Probably, there is another (or the right) way of doing all this (Q4: > could somebody give any hint?). Squid could be very useful, especially since caching dynamic pages can result in a large performance improvement; there are also other packages. Joachim
