Topic: redirecting a url to another sme server

[pearless]

I have yet to find this in the documentation, or contibs, but I have two SME servers behind a firewall, both act as servers only.

One is a production server (SMEServ v7.2), the other my test server (v8).

The firewall can only direct a port (80) to a single server (production) and has no ability to direct to a server based on the URL.

What I am trying to do is for a given domain that I host, I want to be able to re-direct the traffic from my production to my test server, and later restore it back to my production server.

This may well be a simple problem, but maybe it is a lack of coffee, I am a bit stuck for a simple solution.

Cheers Douglas

UPDATE: As typically happens, not sooner have I posted then I find the docuemtation for ProxyPass http://wiki.contribs.org/SME_Server:Documentation:FAQ#Proxy_Pass which seems to fit the bill.

Well I have tried this:

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db domains set furryparrot.com domain
db domains setprop furryparrot.com Nameservers internet
db domains setprop furryparrot.com ProxyPassTarget http:172.22.0.73
db domains setprop proxypassdomain.com TemplatePath ProxyPassVirtualHosts
signal-event domain-create furryparrot.com
and then I went:

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cd /etc/e-smith/templates-custom/etc/
mkdir httpd
cd httpd/
mkdir conf
cd conf
mkdir httpd.conf
cd httpd.conf/
mkdir ProxyPassVirtualHosts
cd ProxyPassVirtualHosts/
cp /etc/e-smith/templates/etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf/ProxyPassVirtualHosts/26RewriteTraceAndTrack /etc/e-smith/templatescustom/etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf/ProxyPassVirtualHosts/
nano 26RewriteTraceAndTrack and added

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ProxyPreserveHost Onand then went

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signal-event remoteaccess-updateHowever, when I try to access http://furryparrot.com I get a 403 error:

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Forbidden

You don't have permission to access / on this server.
If I go

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db domains show furryparrot.comI get

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furryparrot.com=domain
    Nameservers=internet
    ProxyPassTarget=http:172.22.0.73/

Ideas anyone????

[CharlieBrady]

Well I have tried this:

db domains set furryparrot.com domain
db domains setprop furryparrot.com Nameservers internet
db domains setprop furryparrot.com ProxyPassTarget http:172.22.0.73

That should say:

db domains setprop furryparrot.com ProxyPassTarget http:/172.22.0.73/

db domains setprop proxypassdomain.com TemplatePath ProxyPassVirtualHosts

That should say:

db domains setprop furryparrot.com TemplatePath ProxyPassVirtualHosts

[pearless]

That should say:

db domains setprop furryparrot.com ProxyPassTarget http:/172.22.0.73/

That should say:

db domains setprop furryparrot.com TemplatePath ProxyPassVirtualHosts

Thanks  clearly I didn't have enough coffee to miss something as obvious as that!

Now I get in the httpd error log:

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[Mon Aug 08 12:43:10 2011] [error] [client 203.163.71.197] error parsing URL 172.22.0.73/: Malformed URL
Any ideas?

[CharlieBrady]

That should say:

db domains setprop furryparrot.com ProxyPassTarget http:/172.22.0.73/

Actually, no it shouldn't. It should say:

http://172.22.0.73/

[pearless]

Actually, no it shouldn't. It should say:

http://172.22.0.73/

Clearly time for coffee, now works perfectly.  Thanks.