[thelist] proxy directives

Anthony Baratta anthony at baratta.com
Mon Oct 23 11:25:06 CDT 2006


Why do you want to do this? Seems like  recipe for confusion. Sounds like these are two separate servers. So you are going to have to cross mount the file systems?? Or am I not reading your setup correctly?

-----Original message-----
From: "John DeStefano" john.destefano at gmail.com
Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2006 08:57:59 -0700
To: thelist at lists.evolt.org
Subject: [thelist] proxy directives

> Any apache proxy|rewrite|alias gurus out there?
> 
> Let's say I have a directory on Server A called /var/www/directory.  I
> would like all web requests to be proxied by another server, Server B.
>  I would like any requests that call for http://serverb/dir/ect/ory/
> to be served by /var/www/directory on Server A, but I would like the
> URL to maintain the path shown by Server B (for example:
> /var/www/directory/file1 on Server A could be viewed at
> http://serverb/dir/ect/ory/file1 ).
> 
> What would be the best apache directive and approach to accomplish this?
> 
> Also, if you can recommend a good book that might help demystify all
> this, I'd really appreciate it.  The apache online docs are clear and
> very thorough, especially when you know exactly what you're looking
> for, but I'm finding myself going in circles on this one.
> 
> Thank you,
> ~John




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