On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 4:47 PM, Charles W Buege <cbu...@moreycorp.com>wrote:

> Now when someone from the outside world goes to 'www.mycompany.com'
> (which I presume via DNS matches the IP address of Physical Server 1), I'd
> like the proxy server to pass along the request to Physical Server 2.
>

Correct. This is my basic Virtual Host template adapted to your example (I
tested it too):
<VirtualHost www.example.com:80>
 ServerAdmin ad...@example.com
 DocumentRoot "/srv/www/sites/example.com/"
ServerName example.com
 ServerAlias www.example.com
ErrorLog "logs/example.com_error.log"
 CustomLog "logs/example.com_access.log" combined

ProxyPass / http://192.168.200.20/
 ProxyPassReverse / http://192.168.200.20/

RewriteEngine On # if maintenance.html exists RewriteCond
%{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/maintenance.html -f # and the request is not for
maintenance.html RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/maintenance\.html$ #
redirect to maintenance.html RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /maintenance.html [L]
</VirtualHost>


> I'd also like it to happen where if Physical Server 4's Apache instance is
> down for maintenance (backups, year end processing, etc.), that the Proxy
> Server (Physical Server 1) can display a message saying that the site is
> down for maintenance.  I'm presuming this would be handled via the
> 'ErrorDocument 503' that you mentioned in your last e-mail, yes?
>
The 503 is best for unplanned outages since it does not show until the
attempt to connect to the backend server times out.


> I also presume that the DNS entries for www.mycompany.com,
> anothersite.mycompany.com, and thirdsite.mycompany.com would all have the
> same IP address and then the Proxy Server (Physical Server 1) would play
> 'traffic cop' and then forward the necessary traffic to the proper host
> behind the scenes.
>
Correct. And as in my example, I would put the IP addresses of the internal
servers so they don't have to do DNS lookups.


> Also if anyone wants to point me towards somewhere where I can learn more
> about this (web site, books, etc.) so I'm not cluttering up this mailing
> list with newbie questions, please feel free to point me that way.

This list is a perfectly reasonable place.

- Y

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