[CentOS] httpd reverse proxy

Mon May 5 23:38:00 UTC 2008
Craig White <craig at tobyhouse.com>

On Tue, 2008-05-06 at 01:31 +0200, Kai Schaetzl wrote:
> Craig White wrote on Mon, 05 May 2008 14:57:05 -0700:
> 
> > <VirtualHost www.tobyhouse.com:*>
> 
> this is very old-fashioned and unreliable syntax, use this instead:
> http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/vhosts/name-based.html
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that's what I ended up doing...you took the first message in the thread
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> 
> >   RedirectPermanent / http://cms.tobyhouse.com
> 
> > It sent ALL traffic over to the other server which is clearly not what I
> > want.
> 
> I don't understand. Isn't that exactly what you want, redirect all traffic 
> for www.tobyhouse.com to cms.tobyhouse.com?
> 
> > How can handle this? Must I give a unique ip address to
> > www.tobyhouse.com?
> 
> Ah, you have several virtual hosts on it and all of them get redirected to 
> cms.tobyhouse.com? That's the result of the wrong virtual host syntax you 
> use. Use name-based virtual hosts and it will work.
> 
> Why don't you solve this at dns level? Wouldn't that be much "cleaner"?
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sure - but I needed a way to do this temporarily to demonstrate to
bosses who don't always understand these technical issues and to figure
out if and how I handle things at the DNS level.

Craig