Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2000 10:54:54 -0600 From: Erik de Zeeuw <erik@usishealth.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Web URL based redirection Message-ID: <388F26DE.A43A02A9@usishealth.com>
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Hi, I'm in the process of converting a Window$ NT based web application server into a cluster of FreeBSD machines, for both performance and long term usage, as well as personal satisfaction to see little daemons everywhere :) The problem is I can't just replace everything. I'll have to replace all this on an application basis. So I have to keep the actual NT server for the original applications. For now, applications are used with an URL like http://www.company.com/application And I would like to setup things so that the applications which are on the FreeBSD server can also be accessed the same way. I already install a FreeBSD/IPFilter firewall between the web server and the internet. So the question is what software should I use on the firewall to forward requests to http://company.com/NTapplication to the NT server, and forwarding http://company.com/BSDapplication to the FreeBSD server ? I guess it sounds like the software should be a proxy, but it may not be necessary to install a full proxy to just forward url requests to the machine they belong. Note that some applications uses secure http (https) so the software has to support it. Thanks for reading, Erik PS. I recently moved to Austin, TX. So if there are some Austin FreeBSD users outthere, let me know :) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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