On Mon, 26 Jul 2004, Josh Trutwin wrote:

> On Mon, 26 Jul 2004 11:53:41 -0500 (CDT)
> Nate Carlson <natecars at real-time.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, 26 Jul 2004, jimstreit at northlans.com wrote:
> > > 2. If you only have 1 IP address on the public (red) side of IPCop
> > > then you will need to forward different ports.  port 80 to box 1,
> > > port 81 to box 2, port 8080 to box 3 ...
> > > 
> > > Another option is to use virtual servers on a single box.  Then
> > > you can forward port 80 traffic from a single IP address to 1 box,
> > > and let the server deturmine the correct site to return based on
> > > the host header information that the browser passes to the server.
> > 
> > You can also use Apache or Squid as a reverse-proxy, and direct the
> > traffic that way. (IE, set up Apache or Squid on one of the boxes,
> > direct port 80 there, and then configure the proxy to forward the
> > data to the proper internal web server based on which site is
> > requested.)
> 
> Will this also work for SSL traffic?
>

Yes, this works with SSL traffic as well. Basically you are
establishing an SSL connection to the reverse proxy server, and the
proxy server is then making a new SSL connection to the actual web
server.


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