Squid Alternative?

[Les Mikesell]

Devon Harding wrote:
> 
>      >
>      >     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.
> 
> 
> 
> Great...This is what I have in Squid now.  What is the equivalent in Apache?
> 
> httpd_accel_port 80
> httpd_accel_host virtual
> httpd_accel_with_proxy on
> httpd_accel_uses_host_header on


The proxy documentation is here:
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/mod_proxy.html

But you basically just need something like this as a vhost.
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName  only_one_name_can_go_here
ServerAlias  this_can_be_a_list
ProxyPass / http://backend.example.com/
ProxyPassReverse / http://backend.example.com/
### other options can go here...
</VirtualHost>

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