Re: [PLUG] VIrtual Servers on Single IP

[Lee Marzke <lee@marzke.net>]

Here is the link about setting up the ReverseProxy

http://www.apachetutor.org/admin/reverseproxies

Lee

Malcolm J Harwood wrote:
> On Sunday 03 May 2009, Casey Bralla wrote:
>   
> > I have a single static IP which I use for multiple web pages on multiple
> > domains.   Apache makes this process very simple and painless; all web
> > traffic hits Apache, which then decides which web domain was really wanted.
> >
> > However, I'd like to allow each web customer be able to run their own
> > virtual machine on my server, and am wondering how I can split the traffic
> > to separate web pages (with the same public IP) to the separate virtual
> > machines on the same physical server.
> >
> > Anybody have any ideas or know of a good How-To for this?
> >     
>
> Set up a reverse proxy on your common IP that redirects to the internal IPs of 
> the virtual machines? This is a common load balancing technique, usually for 
> when you have a heavy duty backend process and don't want to tie up 
> processes/threads for sending out the data once it's produced. (Standard 
> procedure with mod_perl and java/tomcat backends).
>
> Apache even has a module for it 
> (http://httpd.apache.org/docs/1.3/mod/mod_proxy.html), and a quick google 
> search turns up a good number of howtos.
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