Re: [cobalt-users] multiple web servers behind firewall

[Kris Dahl <kris@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

on 3/6/00 4:05 PM, Nathan Martinez at nathanm@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> This may be slightly off topic for this list, but I figured that it could
> still prove useful for some people.  I have a firewall setup with multiple
> webservers behind it.  Because we are running on a DSL connection, we do not
> have very many IP's and are trying to only use one of our "real" IP's for
> all of our webservers.  Is it possible to do something similar to port
> forwarding here?  I want to be able to do port forwarding based upon the
> domain name that is trying to be reached.  For example, abc.com will be
> forwarded to 192.168.0.10 and xyz.com will be forwarded to 192.168.11.
> Everything that I have read so far indicates that the only condition that
> can be used here is the IP that is trying to be reached.  Since I have
> multiple different private IP's all masqueraded under the same single IP,
> this does not work out.  Is there a way to do this?  Or am I just wasting my
> time trying?  Thank you very much for any help that you can give.

I was thinking about how to overengineer this problem, and then realized it
is all possible using name-based virtual hosting.

There should be some documentation in the knowledgebase about how to set up
name-based virtual hosting.

-k