RewriteRule

charles · #1 23rd February 2005, 03:32 PM

Hi
I’m having two fc2 servers running apache 2.0. The first one have a public IP (web1), the second one (web2) don’t, its used as a xtranet.
What im trying to do is, by pushing a link on a website on web1, i want to redirect the call to web2 on which I have phproject installed. The following RewriteRule in httpd.conf will get me to the login page on phproject but as soon as I try to logon it fails, it cant read subdirs..

RewriteRule ^(.*) httpd://192.168.1.65/phproject/$1 [P]

Any ideas ?

spiderhosts · #2 23rd February 2005, 04:26 PM

May I recommend a different approach?

Why don't you redirect a port from the machine with a public IP to the machine on your intranet?

If you create the redirection on port 2222 for example you will be able to connect to web2 by typing the following:
http://your_ip_address:2222

I believe this approach is more flexible than a standard rewrite rule.

Let me know what you think

Bechara Hitti

charles · #3 24th February 2005, 09:11 AM

Hi Spiderhosts

Thanks for answering, so what you suggest is to use iptables to port forward incoming httpd packets on port xxxx to web2 ? ill try that and see how it works out.

spiderhosts · #4 24th February 2005, 09:53 AM

A very quick hack for this is to use SSH port redirection using the -R switch.

Code:

-R listen-port:host:port    (Forward remote port to local address)
taken from $ man SSH

This will help you test that everything is running smoothly before having to change the IP tables settings.

The same hack above allows you to provide a live port forwarding for any machine located behind a firewall provided that you have an SSH account on the machine with the live IP.

Please let me know if you have more questions.

Bechara Hitti