Nathan Bridgewater explained how to configure multiple reverse proxies properly with apache and IIS (without losing original domain name). I’m reposting this for myself to keep a record of this fine work.
multiple reverse proxy host broken iis serving up local server name instead of the ServerName that was originally passed to it. How to fix it….
As a developer, I don’t get to play with the IT side of things quite as much as I would like to. So I enjoy the little things, like learning how to use a reverse proxy on Apache. At home, I only have one IP coming in with my regular Internet connection, and I want the ability to run multiple servers inside my network on port 80. In the past, I’ve always just setup a new port and routed it to whichever server I wanted. 8080 here, 8081 there, etc. Well with Apache reverse proxy (mod_proxy), I found it was very easy to setup route requests to other internal servers.
This diagram shows the basic idea of what I’m doing. I have a “landing” server that takes all the traffic from the router. Using virtual hosts, I filter the web traffic by hostname and then provide mod_proxy directives to hand off the requests to other internal web servers. Options like ProxyPreserveHost allow you to hand off the original hostname in the request so you can further use hostname filtering on the secondary servers.
Here is an example of the landing server configuration.
NameVirtualHost *:80ServerName foo.com DocumentRoot /srv/www/default Order Deny, Allow Deny from all Allow from all ServerName fooa.com ProxyPreserveHost on ProxyPass / http://server2/ ProxyPassReverse / http://server2/ ServerName foob.com ServerAlias fooc.com ProxyPreserveHost on ProxyPass / http://server3/ ProxyPassReverse / http://server3/
You can see here, that the default site [foo.com] actually his hosted by the landing server. The rest of the hostnames are passed on to the other internal servers. You can also proxy just virtual directories as well. So if you want the requested path, “/something-foo” to go to another internal server, you can. You just use /something-foo as the first argument in ProxyPass and ProxyPassReverse.
The other web servers would have normal configurations like this one below. You can also proxy requests to other web servers like IIS. The proxy will handle basic authentication with an internal Windows IIS server.
NameVirtualHost *:80ServerName fooa.com DocumentRoot /srv/www/fooa.com Order Deny, Allow Deny from all Allow from all
That’s it!
original post from:
http://www.integratedwebsystems.com/2010/06/multiple-web-servers-over-a-single-ip-using-apache-as-a-reverse-proxy/
multiple reverse proxy host broken