Re: HTTP forwarding, based upon host header

On Thu, 15 Sep 2005 06:13:07 GMT, john lemon wrote:

> I am familiar with hosting multiple web sites on a single server using a
> single IP address.
>
> However this situation is a little different.
>
> I have two web servers on the same 192.168.111.x network.
>
> Server #1: 192.168.111.1 - xyz.com and abc.com
> Server #2: 192.168.111.2 - def.com and ghi.com
>
> External DNS is configured so that the WWW hosts for these 4 domains point
> to 207.56.34.12 (for example).
>
> 207.56.34.12 is the hardware firewall.
>
> The firewall port forwarding is set up to forward all PORT 80 requests to
> 192.168.111.1.
>
> xyz.com and abc.com are fully accessible from the outside world.
>
> But back to my original question, how can I access www.def.com and
> www.ghi.com from the outside world ?
>
>
> "Frankster" <Frank@SPAM2TRASH.com> wrote in message
> news:Uv-dnXERrOnjdbXeRVn-qw@giganews.com...
>> Routine stuff. Done all the time. No prob. With host headers you can use
> one
>> IP for multiple sites on the same port. See MS link below. Works fine on
>> IIS5 and W2K even though it's written for IIS6.
>>
>>
> http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/WindowsServer2003/Library/IIS/883a9544-3f70-4d46-a6df-bbadbd1fe7de.mspx
>>
>> -Frank
>>
>> "john lemon" <john@lemon.com> wrote in message
>> news:i_4We.73658$3S5.65656@tornado.rdc-kc.rr.com...
>>> I've got a Watchguard X50 Edge hardware firewall connected to the
> internet
>>> via T1.
>>>
>>> Inside the firewall, I've got 2 web servers, Windows 2000 Server.
>>>
>>> The X50 has the capability to be associated to ONLY ONE external IP
>>> address
>>> (argh...).
>>>
>>> I can easily forward all incoming PORT 80 traffic to either one of the
> web
>>> servers.
>>>
>>> However, I need to be able to forward SOME incoming traffic to Web
> Server
>>> #1, and SOME incoming traffic to Web Server #2. Of course, this would
> be
>>> determined by the host header information.
>>>
>>> So, xyz.com and abc.com are on Server #1. def.com and ghi.com are on
>>> Server
>>> #2.
>>>
>>> Can anyone suggest a free or cheap software solution to this problem?
>>>
>>> Thank you.
>>>
>>> John
>>>
I don't know about IIS but Apache web server allows virtual name-based
virtual hosts to be on different physical servers. Maybe IIS does also.
Received on Thu Sep 29 20:07:56 2005