Publishing multiple web servers

himala · Aug 14, 2007, 1:28 AM

Hi guys im new to the PFSENS
I am trying to publish 3 web servers with deferent Doman names. Those web servers locate in my lan with individual server ( 3 servers)
I have only one public IP address
If anybody knows how to do this please let me know
Thanks in advance

GruensFroeschli · Aug 14, 2007, 1:57 AM

if you want to do the part of differencing to which server to send the traffic based on address?: not doable.

you can do this with apache and virtual hosts: http://webhosting.devshed.com/c/a/Web-Hosting-HowTos/Configuring-Apache-Intermediate/

himala · Aug 14, 2007, 12:33 PM

Hi
Thank you for the replay

I have 3(three) deferent web servers (not virtual servers) actual server boxes
Each Box Have deferent domain name ex. server1.com, server2.com and server3.com
I need to direct the web traffic depend on the domain name to specific server

( I have MS ISA2004 on that firewall I can do that using web listener . I am trying to move on from Microsoft :))
Thanks

tacfit · Aug 14, 2007, 12:35 PM

Hmm… I switched from MS ISA to pfsense also, but as far as I'm aware you can't filter based on URLs with pfsense.

Cry Havok · Aug 14, 2007, 1:52 PM

You may want to look and see if the Squid package includes reverse proxy support. The squid documentation suggests that this will do what you want - see this Squid WIKI article.

sterilegenie · Aug 19, 2007, 11:58 PM

@himala:

Hi
Thank you for the replay

I have 3(three) deferent web servers (not virtual servers) actual server boxes
Each Box Have deferent domain name ex. server1.com, server2.com and server3.com
I need to direct the web traffic depend on the domain name to specific server

( I have MS ISA2004 on that firewall I can do that using web listener . I am trying to move on from Microsoft :))
Thanks

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Server 3

What you want is doable but it has nothing to do with your firewall. You need to setup virtual servers on one of your boxes and point the virtual servers to the machines you want the traffic to go to

tacfit · Aug 20, 2007, 2:54 PM

Interesting. You could that.
If you're using IIS, you would first NAT all web traffic for those 3 sites to a single instance of IIS, configured with multiple websites. You'd need to set the host header values of those websites to respond the URL requests. Then, modify your hosts file (c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts) to point traffic for those URLs to the appropriate web servers inside your LAN.

Following along? I think that should work. If more than 1 of these sites are secure though, you may run into complications.