Two webservers on the same network?

[DDRtists]

Okay, heres would I'm hoping I can do.

I run a few boxes for different game servers here at my house, and I'd like to run a webserver on a few of them separate from my production webserver, as to not use all the resources for videogame related stuff and slow down my actual sites. Note, I mean actual servers that people can access from the outside. I currently have them set up, but only I can access all of them but my production webserver. The production one is the only one people can see from the outside, currently.

My question: Is it possible to run multiple webservers on the same network, and decide what site goes where based on the domain requested? My whole network is behind a Ubuntu NAT Router/DNS/DHCP Server, if it makes any difference.

Example:
mysite1.com requests go to webserver 1
mysite2.com requests go to webserver 2

Possible? If so, how?

 

[Ghan]

The easiest thing to do would be to use different ports for each webserver and forward accordingly. Assuming that's not what you want to do....

You could set up a box running something like lighttpd and direct all traffic there. Lighttpd has a module to do proxying to other webservers. This is not something that I have setup before, but I have seen such things in the lighttpd documentation mentioned before. I don't know if Apache has a similar module, but it may. Anyway, the general strategy is to use one webserver to examine where the requests need to go and then forward them accordingly.

 

[Samuraid]

A proxy is really the only way to do it, assuming you have only 1 IP address and you want all the webservers to accept traffic from port 80.

You can use something like lighttpd, nginx, varnish, or haproxy to act as a reverse proxy. They can be configured to send traffic to any number of back-end servers based on domain, URL, cookies, and many other parameters.

 

[DDRtists]

Sweet, okay. My production server is running apache 2.2.17 on server 2003, but I just recently set up a ubuntu box with lighttpd and have figured that out. So now I'm going to be moving my production server to a ubuntu box with lighttpd, as it runs so much better. So I guess I shall go with that route then, thanks guys!

 

[DDRtists]

Figured out how to do it with Apache 2.2.

See: mod_proxy