Squid, Apache 2 and FC4

[Rick]

Jon Moss wrote:
> Anyone out there using Squid as a web accelerator or reverse proxy?
> 
> Before I attempt to reinvent the wheel, I was curious about how you
> accessed site if to the "outside" world it's the same IP address?  In
> other words, I have two webservers behind my wireless router and I only
> have two ports forwarded from the Internet to them (one for each server).
> 
> I thought it would be "better" if I used squid instead and eliminated one
> of the forwarded ports.  But how do I access the URL from the outside
> world?
> 
> None of the documentation I've read on Squid has gone into that workflow
> process.
> 
> Any suggestions would be great!
> 
> 
I think what you're asking about is actually a reverse proxy (could also 
be used as a load balancer). I'm not sure that I would classify that 
configuration as 'better', but here's some more information about 
reverse proxy'ing with squid: 
http://squid.visolve.com/squid/reverseproxy.htm