Squid, Apache 2 and FC4
Rick
rick.buford at gmail.com
Thu Dec 22 15:48:52 CST 2005
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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