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From: Erik de Zeeuw <erik@usishealth.com>
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Hello,

We're having an NT web application server, and we're about
to convert it to FreeBSD.

Unfortunately, this can be done overnight, and we'll have
to keep the NT server up for the applications that are
not yet running on FreeBSD, while the others are on 
the new FreeBSD application server ( running Apache/JServ
with MySQL for the database ).

The problem is that the users are accessing the applications
on a URL basis, that is http://oursite.com/application or
https://oursite.com/otherapplication.

So I need to setup something that will forward the requests
to the right server, that is

http(s)://oursite.com/NTapplication to the NT server, and
http(s)://oursite.com/BSDapplication to the FreeBSD server.

I was wondering if there is some kind of proxy that can analyse
the http(s) requests that comes in, and forward them to the
appropriate server.

We have a FreeBSD firewall in front of the two machines, so it
might be the place to install such a software.

I thought about installing Apache on the firewall, with mod_rewrite
on, but this may not be the ultimate solution.

Any advices and experience on this are welcome :)

Thanks
Erik de Zeeuw


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