Forward based on hostname
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Hi,
Sorry if this has been covered - I have been looking through the forums for awhile because it seems like it should be a common request.
I would like to get a number of web servers running on my internal network (NAT). But only have a single public IP address for my WAN interface.
If a external user requets "http://www.server1.com" I would like to get it to port 80 on "server1" and if they type in "http://www.server2.com" have it forward to port 80 on "server2" and so on. From the NAT menu I can only see how to do this using different ports - ie. server1 on TCP-80 and server2 on TCP-8080. To complicate things a bit I also have some Apache servers running Virtual Hosts (based on hostname).
My DNS is setup to point all A records to the public (WAN) IP address.
Again - sorry if this has been covered.
Thanks,
jk
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Pfsense can't do this. You would have to work this out with apache. Either put all the websites on the same server, or I think you could use the apache proxy module to grab the pages and from the correct server and act as the middleman.
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Thank you for the quick reply.
I think I will just install Pound (http://www.apsis.ch/pound/) at a central point and forward all web traffic to it for redistribution based on requested URL.
Again - thank you for the quick reply :-)
If I ever learn how to create packages I will attempt a pound package.
Cheers,
jk