i'm using openbsd with apache and mod_proxy over 4 years in several appications as reverseproxy and it works fine. (owa, several asp applications and normal websites).
if you need help, you can contact me. Thomas On Wednesday 03 January 2007 14:45, Joachim Schipper wrote: > 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
