Single WAN IP with Multiple App-servers/web servers

mrmastii

Hello:
I apologize if this question is in wrong place.

Question:
I need some direction,
I have 1 static WAN IP address [can’t have more than one with my service]

My domain from external dns is pointing this static IP
I also have sub-domain pointing to same static IP.
This is done so that this IP will be entry point.
So if I “ping mydomain.com” it will resolve to 80.x.x.7 and “dev.mydomain.com” to same.

Inside my PFSense I have main domain with few machines on 192.168.1.0 to 192.168.1.25

Additionally I have sub domain dev with few machines on 192.168.1.100 to 192.168.1.125

How or what should I be configuring so that if someone wants to access www.mydomain.com it should take the prod webserver
and if www.dev.mydomain.com is entered it will be taken to dev webserver

–Internet-----WAN-Static IP-----[PF Sense]–--[```````[sup]Prod(192.168.1.25) _____Dev(192.168.1.100)

Help is much appreciated
-Kashif

blak111

This would have to be done on your webserver. pfSense doesn't pay attention to the hostname that the user is using to access the site.

You could setup a virtual host on your production webserver that takes requests to www.dev.mydomain.com and redirects them to another port that is forwarded to the dev server.

mrmastii

Thanks for the reply blak111
I have tried this approach, and I am getting page not found.
You mention that to use different port, the app is port specific like 8080, if I redirect on different port the app will not work

Any suggestion be appreciated
-Kashif

blak111

Yeah, I think your only option is then to get another external IP to work with or maybe have people that need access to the dev server use a VPN and access the private address.

If they are using a web browser to access the site, it should be okay to have a different on port on the outside redirecting to the 8080 on the inside. Is the port number built into a client they use?

cmb

With one IP, you have to do something like this.
http://doc.m0n0.ch/handbook/thirdparty-apache-virtualhosts.html

mrmastii

blak111 and cmb,
Thanks for your input. both of your suggestion are informative.
With my ISP / my account I cant have more than one IP.
so , I will combine both of your suggestions, to create VPN and config web for virtual host…only thing that I need to investigate is IIS equivalent solution

thanks again

cheers

-Kashif

blak111

Both IIS and Apache can do the name based virtual hosts so you should be ok.

ginosteel

if u have apache just install plesk and all it`s done. U can do this easy from Plesk panel.