[NTLUG:Discuss] Web-server Farm - Networking Question

[David Simmons]

> There are ways of handling web of course, but many protocols
> don't really care about the name so much as the IP, and since
> they would all have the same IP, most services couldn't be
> made to be 'specific' to one VM or another.

well......actually it can....grin

Through a bunch of
research, it appears that using 'mod_proxy' on Apache (with some
mod_rewrite) rules would work.  You have the host OS run a httpd
session (with mod_proxy) - then it will do the redirects (based on host
name) to the individual - private IP VMs....using mod_rewrite for the
reverse lookups.

Maybe that's what you're saying by 'there are
ways of handling web'.....which is really the issue.  Figured I could
do ssh on different ports, etc.

In the end....a call for more
IP address really seemed to be the most painless and direct.

Thanks for all the input(s)!

 - dave