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We have made many, many friends over 25 years of teaching about Python, Tcl, Perl, PHP, Lua, Java, C and C++ - and MySQL, Linux and Solaris/SunOS too. Our training notes are now very much out of date, but due to upward compatability most of our examples remain operational and even relevant ad you are welcome to make us if them "as seen" and at your own risk.

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How can I run multiple web servers behind a single IP address?

Scenario ... from last week's Linux course. I have several web servers on my network which I want to make publicly available. However, I only have a single incoming IP address, so all incoming web requests go to a single computer in my network. What can I do about this?

Option 1 - keep all the web sites on one computer (it might be easier that way anyway, for robusteness / maintainance / security / uptime considerations) and use virtual hosting. You can find our virtual hosting resources [here].

Option 2 - use an intelligent incoming router. But either this will need to be quite a sophisticated box which analyses the traffic coming in on port 80 or you'll have to use different port numbers for your various web servers and then you can rewrite them as they come in - so this means that the setup won't be transparent to external visitors.

Option 3 - have all web traffic coming to a single computer running Apache httpd with mod_proxy, forwarding traffic to each of the real servers on a per-domain basis. You can find our mod_proxy resources [here].

Diagram showing how multiple web servers can be hosted on a network which itself has only a single world-accessible IP address

(written 2012-04-02, updated 2012-04-07)

 
Associated topics are indexed as below, or enter http://melksh.am/nnnn for individual articles
A608 - Web Application Deployment - Apache httpd mod_proxy
  [631] Apache httpd to Tomcat - jk v proxy - (2006-03-03)
  [934] Clustering, load balancing, mod_rewrite and mod_proxy - (2006-11-21)
  [1006] Apache httpd and Apache Tomcat together tips - (2006-12-24)
  [1121] Sharing the load with Apache httpd and perhaps Tomcat - (2007-03-29)
  [1376] Choosing between mod_proxy and mod_rewrite - (2007-10-02)
  [1566] Strange behaviour of web directory requests without a trailing slash - (2008-03-06)
  [1767] mod_proxy and mod_proxy_ajp - httpd - (2008-08-22)
  [1939] mod_proxy_ajp and mod_proxy_balancer examples - (2008-12-13)
  [1944] Forwarding session and cookie requests from httpd to Tomcat - (2008-12-14)
  [2062] Virtual hosting and mod_proxy forwarding of different domains (httpd) - (2009-03-01)
  [2273] Three recent questions on Tomcat Convertors - (2009-07-07)
  [2325] Apache, Tomcat, mod_proxy - (2009-08-06)
  [2482] Load balancing with sticky sessions (httpd / Tomcat) - (2009-10-29)
  [3293] Distributing the server load - yet ensuring that each user return to the same system (Apache httpd and Tomcat) - (2011-05-18)
  [3339] Simplest ever proxy configuration? - (2011-06-28)
  [3892] Distributed, Balanced and Clustered Load Sharing - the difference - (2012-10-13)

A192 - Web Application Deployment - Firewalls
  [770] Splash! - (2006-06-20)
  [806] Check your user is human. Have him retype a word in a graphic - (2006-07-17)
  [3679] Setting up your Linux system as a firewall using iptables - (2012-04-02)


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