Squid Alternative?
Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
Mon Jul 9 18:48:06 UTC 2007
Devon Harding wrote:
>
>
> On 7/9/07, *Les Mikesell* <lesmikesell at gmail.com
> <mailto:lesmikesell at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> Devon Harding wrote:
> > I'm looking for a redirector like Squid for incoming access based on
> > host name. I normally use xinet.d, but that only has a one to one
> > mapping. I would like the redirector route traffic based on the host
> > name of the target.
>
> You can only do this for http, where the host name is passed in a header
> from the client. Apache can do it if you create named virtual hosts
> that use the ProxyPass directive or a RewriteRule with the [P] flag to
> proxy the requests to a backend server. You'll also need a
> ProxyPassReverse directive configured to fix redirects issued by the end
> server.
>
>
> Maybe thats what I need to do, as I need for the same server doing the
> proxying to accept http request as well
Yes, apache can sort this out itself. If anything else accepts port 80
you'd have to also have a special case to redirect even the local host,
perhaps to apache on an alternate port.
--
Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
More information about the fedora-list
mailing list