natd & virtual hosting

[Eli K. Breen]

Aha! I'll give that a go.

Thank you.

-E-

Matthew Seaman wrote:
>>>>If I have a single IP, will nat with FreeBSD 4.9 allow me to separate
>>>>requests by domain name even if they share an IP?
>>>
>>>NAT works with IP addresses.  Why can't you just use Virtual Hosts in 
>>>Apache?  Do you really need to run both versions?  
>>
>>Yes. Unfortunately. (Slash does not run on 2.x, many of the sites 
>>require 2.x)

> A good trick is to set up all of the virtual hosts you need in the
> server listening on port 80 (presumably this is your apache-1.3.x
> server), and then use mod_proxy to fetch the content from the server
> on port 8080 (presumably the apache-2.0.x server).  Something like:
> 
>     <VirtualHost *:80>
>         ServerAdmin  webmaster at example.com
>         ServerName   www8080.example.com
>         DocumentRoot "/usr/local/www/www8080.example.com/"  # Not sure if this
>                                                             # is necessary
>     
>         <IfModule mod_proxy.c>
>             ProxyPass        / http://www8080.example.com:8080/
>             ProxyPassReverse / http://www8080.example.com:8080/
>         </IfModule>
>     </VirtualHost>
>     
> 	Cheers,
> 
> 	Matthew
>