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Title: 2 internal web servers??
Post by: Kevin Jensen on May 13, 2002, 09:34:06 PM

Here is the situation:
I have an smeserver running email/dns/firwall/ and I've installed the port forwarding module.

I have two webservers internal.  Both windows 2000 boxes.

A:   http://www.domain1.com 192.168.90.22
B:   http://www.domain2.com 192.168.90.23

Is there any way to route to the appropriate internal IP based on URL?  Or do I have to forward all port 80 to one machine?

Any ideas would be appreciative.

Thanks,
Kevin

Title: Re: 2 internal web servers??
Post by: Alex Ziemann on May 13, 2002, 09:45:20 PM

Hi,

so how do you host all your customers :-) ?

Build domain1.com and domain2.com as virtual domains into your e-smith box.

Point www.domain1.com and www.domain2.com in your hosts file to your w2k boxes. Just enter the correct IPs in the server-manager. Add more services as needed.

No port-forwarding needed.

hth
Alex

Title: Re: 2 internal web servers??
Post by: Kevin Jensen on May 13, 2002, 09:56:48 PM

Alex,
Thanks for the quick reply.  I have created virtual domains in the server-manager, and pointed them to my internal web servers.  Everything works great internally when I do that.  But externally, they route to the smeserver information bay instead of the internal webserver.  Where is this hosts file your refer too?  could this fix my problem?

Thanks again,
Kevin

Title: Re: 2 internal web servers??
Post by: Alex Ziemann on May 13, 2002, 10:11:34 PM

Oops!

Actually i never tried that, but:

First check

http://www.e-smith.org/bboard//read.php?f=1&i=13744&t=13744&v=f

this provides a solution via port-forwarding. But this will probably not work with two different domains.

Here is, what i did:

I use my domain http://www.raziemann.de as virtual domain on my e-smith box.

For some provider-trouble this one is hosted
a) on primary domain e-smith box and
b) on some external providers webspace.

What i did for bandwith-reasons is i went to server manager hostnames and adresses and put the IP of providers webspace in there for www and ftp.

It works like a charm. Perhaps you should then put your w2k-boxes on the outside of your network (if you dare to). Then this will work in every case. But no extra security....

alex

Title: Re: 2 internal web servers??
Post by: Nathan Fowler on May 14, 2002, 12:18:35 AM

You guys could use mod_rewrite with Apache :)  You won't be able to port forward based on host header, but you should be able to use mod_rewrite to do what you need to do.

Title: Re: 2 internal web servers??
Post by: Nathan Fowler on May 14, 2002, 12:27:01 AM

You could use Mod_rewrite or create virtual network interfaces for the public
interface of the firewall and assign different public IPs to these virtual
interfaces. Then, you can do a port forwarding on each interface to
redirect the traffic to the actual internal server.

Unfortunately, one cannot create virtual interfaces through the web
interface.

Title: Re: 2 internal web servers??
Post by: Boris on May 14, 2002, 04:17:40 AM

proxypass perhaps will help.
look here
http://www.e-smith.org/bboard//read.php?f=1&i=13972&t=13893&v=f
good luck.