[thelist] proxy directives

[John DeStefano]

> From: "Anthony Baratta" <anthony at baratta.com>
> To: thelist at lists.evolt.org <thelist at lists.evolt.org>, thelist at lists.evolt.org
> Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2006 09:25:06 -0700
> Subject: Re: [thelist] proxy directives
> 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?

I don't wish to cross-mount.  This may be too much information for
this problem, but I am currently serving two directories on one
machine, one authenticated (HTTPS) and one not (HTTP). Further, the
authenticated directory contains dynamic content generated by scripts,
and the unauthetnicated pages are crawled, HTML-only versions of the
dynamic content.  Finally, although the actual content between the two
is essentially the same, the sub-directory structure isn't, due to the
results of the crawler versus the much more flat nature of the
scripted content.

So, what I want to do is:
- Proxy both the HTTP and HTTPS content from another server, so that
the server host name will not appear to be different, save for the "S"
in "HTTPS" (I've already got this working, albeit probably not the
right way)
- Create a "virtual" directory structure that mirrors one server
instance for the other, even though that directory does not actually
exist in the other (see below).  In essence, I need the URL space for
the server instances to match (except for "HTTP:" versus "HTTPS:").

Eventually, I will move the HTTP stuff to a separate server so the
HTTPS stuff will be a bit more secure, and that will alleviate some
(but not all) of these issues.

Thanks,
~John

>
> -----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