Port Redirection in Windows

[b4u]

Hi,

I'm looking into a way of doing proper port redirection in windows.

What I have:

I have a router that will redirect all incoming port 80 to a specific IP. I will receive all kind of requests in port 80.

Example:
svn.mydomain.com:80 (subversion server)
www.mydomain.com:80 (webserver)

With this I'm trying to use port 80 for all connections, since I can remotely be behind a proxy that only allows http port 80 requests.

So now in my server, the router forwards all port 80 requests to the right computer ... then I need to configure the server, so that requests from "svn.mydomain.com" are instead forward to port "8080" and requests from "www.mydomain.com" are forward to port "8081" (for example).

So port 8080 will answer the SVN server, and port 8081 will answer a JBoss server.

What is the best way of doing it?

I thought maybe Apache Http Server? Can he do it? Or is there a simpler way?

I've never dealt with Apache Http Server before, so no experience on configuring it ...


Thanks

 

[b4u]

* bump *

 

[yinan]

Look into using host headers.

 

[Crusty]

You are looking for a web server that supports Virtual Hosts. Both Apache and IIS support this.

 

[b4u]

Originally posted by: Crusty
You are looking for a web server that supports Virtual Hosts. Both Apache and IIS support this.

I've just installed Apache HTTP Server 2.2.11 (on machine with IP 192.168.1.1), and I'm trying to do the trick ... need some help here ...

What I want:
www.mydomain.com:80 -> (forwards to) 192.168.1.1:80 (has another web server, jboss)
svn.mydomain.com:80 -> (forwards to) 192.168.1.1:8123 (another port, has an svn server listening)


What should be my config on apache?

My router forwards all port 80 requests to my machine. My machine has:

- Apache HTTP Server on port 80
- JBoss on port 8080
- SVN Server on port 8443 (SSL)

(I payed for "mydomain.com" domain, and it's pointing correctly at my home/router)


Can I config this?:

Listen 80

<VirtualHost www.mydomain.com:80>
ServerName 192.168.1.1:8080
ServerAlias 192.168.1.1:8080
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost svn.mydomain.com:80>
ServerName 192.168.1.1:8443
ServerAlias 192.168.1.1:8443
</VirtualHost>


Is this the way?


Thanks

 

[Nothinman]

The docs at http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/vhosts/name-based.html seem to explain it pretty well to me.

 

[b4u]

Originally posted by: Nothinman
The docs at http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/vhosts/name-based.html seem to explain it pretty well to me.

I've created the example based on the online documentation, but I'm not sure about putting a different port in definitions, since I found no example about it on the official docs.

 

[Nothinman]

Well you can have multiple VirtualHost directives with different ports in them(i.e. <VirtualHost *:80> and <VirtualHost *:443>). But you've got it backwards, you want the VirtualHost directives to have the IPort and the ServerName directive to have the hostname.

Is the SVN portion part of Apache as well? Cause if not you won't be able to have Apache listen on 8443 with the SVN server on the same port.

 

[b4u]

Originally posted by: Nothinman
Well you can have multiple VirtualHost directives with different ports in them(i.e. <VirtualHost *:80> and <VirtualHost *:443>). But you've got it backwards, you want the VirtualHost directives to have the IPort and the ServerName directive to have the hostname.

Is the SVN portion part of Apache as well? Cause if not you won't be able to have Apache listen on 8443 with the SVN server on the same port.

I believe it is, in this case I'm using VisualSVN, which installed an Apache service on my machine.