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| bajanman 2006-05-15, 1:17 pm |
| Hello,
I'm hoping someone can either point me in the right direction for
documentation,
or just let me know their opinion on my situation.
We have a webserver, that uses the latest apache.
it uses load balancing, with 2 web servers, inside our firewall, with
port 80 open.
We use a bit of authentication, and integration with an MS SQL database
and transactions.
These are done inside the firewall, so there are no ports open on the
database servers.
Apache -> MS SQL database (done inside).
our pages, also have images. BUT, they are being referenced outside
with another 2 servers with ports 80 open.
SO, we have 2 web servers, 2 image servers and 2 database servers for
redundancy.
What I would like to know, is "why" do the 2 image servers have to have
an "outside" link of port 80?
Can't apache do a mod write? or redirect, and point to the images, with
a reference to the IP of the "inside" machine?
Its doing this already with the MS SQL....
I hope I explained it properly...
Thanks
William
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| Robert Ionescu 2006-05-29, 5:40 pm |
| bajanman wrote:
> Can't apache do a mod write? or redirect, and point to the images, with
> a reference to the IP of the "inside" machine?
Why don't you use a separate balancer for images? Like
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^/(.+\.(?:gif|jpe?g|png))$ balancer://mycluster1/$1 [P]
# the rest
RewriteRule ^/(.*) balancer://mycluster2/$1 [P]
<Proxy balancer://mycluster1/>
BalancerMember http://1.2.3.4/
BalancerMember http://1.2.3.5/
</Proxy>
<Proxy balancer://mycluster2/>
BalancerMember http://1.2.3.6/
BalancerMember http://1.2.3.7/
</Proxy>
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Robert
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| bajanman 2006-05-29, 5:40 pm |
| actually I found out, that we're using "round robin" to make the
servers redundant.
Is there a better way of doing it?
Thanks
William
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