Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2000 14:30:10 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> To: Erik de Zeeuw <erik@usishealth.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: http(s) request based forwarding ? Message-ID: <20000218143009.V21720@fw.wintelcom.net> In-Reply-To: <38ADBE5D.2E29BA7E@usishealth.com>; from erik@usishealth.com on Fri, Feb 18, 2000 at 03:49:18PM -0600 References: <38ADBE5D.2E29BA7E@usishealth.com>
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* Erik de Zeeuw <erik@usishealth.com> [000218 14:18] wrote: > 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 :) I think the best advice would be to keep everything on NT until you do the full convertion, setting something like this up is just going to sap reasources when you could just complete the entire thing and move it entirely to FreeBSD much quicker. Alternatively you could fixup all your links to point various NT applications on http(s)://nt.oursite.com/, that would be the easiest imo. When the convertion is entriely complete, then just alias the dns over or do a whole search/replace on the site fixing it. -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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