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Hi,

Maybe it's a stupid question, anyway here goes..

I have an Apache web server on Solaris box, let's say A, with a public ip
and a web application on a Linux box, uhmmm B, on a private lan with a private ip.

I want the people from outside to connect to the app, but its inside the lan, so itś a problem.

I know NAT would be a solution, but I only want to forward data from one port (8080) and NAT static rules are like putting a public ip on box B...

Is it a way to do, in a app layer, something like this:

Code:

if http request from outside to boxA:8080
then forward to boxB:8080

I hope you understand this confusing email and thanks for your help.

You need a plug gateway. Read up on sunscreen.

Could you not set up a reverse proxy server on the Apache host?

http://www.apacheweek.com/features/reverseproxies

Cheers
ZB

I have in the past done this with mod_proxy on the host with public IP, but performance wasn't really good.

Hi

I got this to work with reverse proxy as follows:

<VirtualHost *:80>

ServerAdmin xxxxx
DocumentRoot /var/www/html/
Servername helpdesk.domain.com
ErrorLog logs/helpdesk-error_log
CustomLog logs/helpdesk-access_log common

ProxyRequests Off

<Proxy *>
Order deny,allow
Allow from all
</Proxy>

ProxyPass / http://internalserver.domain.com:8080
ProxyPassReverse / http://internalserver.domain.com:8080

</VirtualHost>