[Cialug] 2 web servers 1 IP

[Matt Stanton]

Just a word of warning with webmin.  I was setting up some vhosts for 
apache and webmin was having some strange parsing errors.  This was an 
Ubuntu server 8.04 LTS install with the latest apache2 and webmin from 
the ubuntu repositories.  It was tacking portions of the word 
'localhost' or 'localdomain' on to the end of the directive that 
specifies the name of the vhost.  The strange thing about it was that it 
would drop a portion of the end of the vhost name and a portion of the 
beginning of the 'localhost' or whatever string it had in mind.  I ended 
up going back through the vhost files it generated and fixing the issues 
manually.

On the other hand, webmin did a spectacular job of getting virtual 
interfaces up to use all the ips assigned to the box.  Basic moral of 
the story, I guess, is that you shouldn't use webmin to modify anything 
that you can't learn to config by hand (but if it's broken and no amount 
of googling will help, cross your fingers and go for it?).

jrnosee at gmail.com wrote:
> Ok, acutally, I'm not sure if I need a proxy or a reverse proxy.
>
> On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 9:44 PM, <jrnosee at gmail.com 
> <mailto:jrnosee at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     I like your first option, still looking for a config example.  I
>     know it's bad, but as a dabbler I am using webmin to handle a lot
>     of my configuration and setup, but I can get into the config file
>     and try not to muck it up.
>
>
>     On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 1:55 PM, Josh More
>     <morej at alliancetechnologies.net
>     <mailto:morej at alliancetechnologies.net>> wrote:
>
>         I'd set up a proxy that uses name based virtual hosts and
>         redirects the
>         traffic to an internal IP.  You can do all sorts of stuff with
>         ports if
>         you want, but really, this doesn't seem like much of a deal.
>
>         However, it might be easier to see what some of our friends
>         (*cough*
>         Theron *cough*) might be able to do on their virtual hosting
>         platforms
>         where they may have extra IPs available.
>
>
>
>         -Josh More, RHCE, CISSP, NCLP, GIAC
>          morej at alliancetechnologies.net
>         <mailto:morej at alliancetechnologies.net>
>          515-245-7701
>
>         >>> <jrnosee at gmail.com <mailto:jrnosee at gmail.com>> 01/11/10
>         1:41 PM >>>
>         Ok, so I'm not trying to play off of that 2x1y crap floating
>         around.
>
>         What I've got is a box running VMWare Server with a Web Server
>         running
>         Apache2 that I use regularly.  I'm helping out my church by
>         pre-building
>         another VM running the same to be used for their Joomla site
>         and will
>         eventually be moved to their new server.  The server they have now
>         crashes a
>         lot so I've offered to host off my server until the VM can be
>         moved, but
>         I'm
>         not sure how to set up the infrastructure to allow web hosting
>         off of
>         two
>         separate VM's with one IP.  I'm guessing a proxy must be used,
>         but I
>         don't
>         know what to install or how to set it up.
>
>         Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.
>
>         Thanks,
>
>         Justin
>
>
>
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