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Date:      Tue, 17 Oct 2000 12:50:49 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Ralph Huntington <rjh@mohawk.net>
To:        Rolf Edwards <redwards@meccamediagroup.com>
Cc:        Adam Laurie <adam@algroup.co.uk>, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Multiple Web/SSL behind firewall
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0010171240570.86432-100000@mohegan.mohawk.net>
In-Reply-To: <5.0.0.25.2.20001017101924.00ab9808@127.0.0.1>

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> > > >redirect_port tcp a.b.c.d:80 e.f.g.h:80
> > > >redirect_port tcp a.b.c.d:443 e.f.g.h:443
> > >
> > > The problem is that there are multiple web servers so that will not work,
> >
> >You could have multiple IP aliases on your outside net. Alternatively,
> >a single back end server that then does the
> >round-robin/load-balanced/whatever forwarding. (http://www.backhand.org/)
> 
> Reviewing the backhand site, it looks as though it isn't a great fit.  

You could still run a single back-end server that distributes the hits.
You could use mod_rewrite for that. It could handle port 80 and 443 also,
redirecting (rewriting) as you please based on the URL requested. This
could be name based as well if you run bind for it all inside.   -=r=-




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