RE: [squid-users] reverse proxy / virtual hosting

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From: Dan DeLong [mailto:ddelong@custdata.com]
Sent: Tuesday, June 22, 2004 8:42 AM
To: squid-users@squid-cache.org
Subject: [squid-users] reverse proxy / virtual hosting

Hello,

I currently have squid running as a reverse proxy. I have a number of squid
instances running to handle a number of different websites. Each squid
instance listens on it's own ip address and handles the SSL cert for the
incoming web request. My goal is to have squid listen on one address to
handle multiple websites in essence do virtual hosting. Can this be done
with squid ? If so, can you provide any direction on how to set squid up to
do this ?

Thanks.

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We are looking to set up the same environment here. Multiple back end
webservers being handled by a reverse proxy. Users would go to
www.ourcompany.com/extranet www.ourcompany.com/intranet
www.ourcompany.com/web2 etc, with a mapping created for each of those
various webservers. By default, www.ourcompany.com would send them to the
main webserver, a homegrown portal type web interface, with links to the
other webservers.

On 2.5stable5 I accomplished this using squidguard as a redirector. The
problem we ran into was when we tried to add in ssl and ldap authentication,
so right now are messing with squid-3.0.pre3. Yesterday we made good
progress (ie: no other issues got in the way and I got to work on this:))
and got the ldap authentication and ssl working, with it connecting to one
back end webserver...having defined that in the cache_peer and acl conf
lines. I'm hoping to have time, over the next few days, to get squidguard
working with this configuration. I'm sure what you want to do can be done,
and am pretty sure people have done it before. Documentation seems to be
lacking on exactly what steps were taken to do so though. Once I get this
figured out I'll post the conf file and what steps were taken so it aids
others. I've spent a lot of time researching this, over the last month or
two, but having only spent 2 months with squid I am far from an expert on
this. I got my company to fork over some cash to an outside consultant and
I've been real happy with the one we went with, who was listed on the
squid-cache.org site as those offering paid assistance. (no idea what the
protocol here is on offering plugs for a job well done, so I won't mention
which company we went with)

If you want to get to the point where you just proxy the traffic to multiple
back end webservers, squidguard will do the trick for you. If you are up to
the task, you can write your own redirector program too. The
redirector_program conf line is where you add info in for that.
Received on Tue Jun 22 2004 - 07:03:11 MDT