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!
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
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