From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 18 15:20:17 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from houston.matchlogic.com (houston.matchlogic.com [205.216.147.127]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 181BD37BB42 for ; Fri, 18 Feb 2000 15:20:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from crandall@matchlogic.com) Received: by houston.matchlogic.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) id ; Fri, 18 Feb 2000 16:20:07 -0700 Message-ID: <5FE9B713CCCDD311A03400508B8B301303D969@bdr-xcln.is.matchlogic.com> From: Charles Randall To: Erik de Zeeuw , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: http(s) request based forwarding ? Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2000 16:20:04 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG If you're load-balancing these requests using something like the Cisco LocalDirector, the Alteon Ace180, or the CoyotePoint Equalizer, then use "URL filtering". That's exactly what you're asking for. If you're not load-balancing these requests using something like that, you should be. :^) If you're interested in commercial load balancing products, check out this InfoWorld article (a bit light, but better than nothing) http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayArchive.pl?/99/20/i05-20.60.htm Charles -----Original Message----- From: Erik de Zeeuw [mailto:erik@usishealth.com] Sent: Friday, February 18, 2000 2:49 PM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: http(s) request based forwarding ? 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message