need help with web forwarding of traffic

[npereira]

here is what i need to do:
web1.mydomain.com resolves to 209.5.5.5 which is my public IP on the external side of my router. Router is setup to forward (port forwarding) all port 80 based traffic to internal ip 192.168.1.10 which I want that server to lookup the request, and for web1 forward to 192.168.1.101, for web2 to .102 etc....

how can i acheive this? What do i need to use?

[zombykillah]

I guess the words you are looking for are:
apache and VirtualHost

The kind of forwarding you want needs to communicate the name - which is called first.
So the request first needs to be answered by server 192.168.1.10 ...
I am not sure, that apache is capable of redirecting any that way to a different server ...
But it gets possible to choose different file locations of the web-pages ...
a ntp mounted location for example ...
or a php script which simply echos what it reads from an internal web-page ...

[npereira]

i know i can do that i was looking at sending the traffic to 2 different servers

[zombykillah]

Is my guessing right, that it's something like a virtual host?
The only other product I can think of, that may achieve that is a Proxy.

Or do you think, like one client gets served from server 1 another gets served by server 2 .... just to reduce the load ?
--- You could write a script with iptables, to do so.

[npereira]

Is my guessing right, that it's something like a virtual host?
The only other product I can think of, that may achieve that is a Proxy.

Or do you think, like one client gets served from server 1 another gets served by server 2 .... just to reduce the load ?
--- You could write a script with iptables, to do so.

I think i found something to do this, it's called Pound Apsis Gmbh

[neildomo]

In the first webserver you could set up VirtualHosts, then instead of a DocRoot you could use ProxyPass and ProxyPassReverse to guide the requests through to the correct backend server. The router is only aware of the "front-end". It would be something like:

<virtualhost web1:80>
ProxyPass / http://192.168.1.101
ProxyPassReverse / http://192.168.1.101
</virtualhost>

<virtualhost web2:80>
ProxyPass / http://192.168.1.102
ProxyPassReverse / http://192.168.1.102
<virtualhost>

...

[npereira]

i actually installed and configured Pound and it works like a CHARM !

Thanks for all the help.