Am successfully running Apache, internally and externally. Have an
idea to be able to access Exchange Server mailbox from a secure page.
Tried to link an url to "http://servermx.exchange". Internally this
work fine, but externally it is obviously trying to access the
internal LAN IP, and can't find it. What modules(?) are required to
perform this action, and config pointers would be appreicated.

Big Al

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On 3 Sep 2004 13:39:47 -0700, Big Al wrote:

> Am successfully running Apache, internally and externally. Have an
> idea to be able to access Exchange Server mailbox from a secure page.
> Tried to link an url to "http://servermx.exchange". Internally this
> work fine, but externally it is obviously trying to access the
> internal LAN IP, and can't find it. What modules(?) are required to
> perform this action, and config pointers would be appreicated.
>
> Big Al

It will use port 80 as it's going through IIS. Why don't you use https
(port 443) then you can use a secure connection from outside your LAN,
that's assuming you're not using 443 on Apache. Alternatively you could get
IIS to listen on a different port such as 8080.

Regards

Bill

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Big Al wrote:
>
> Am successfully running Apache, internally and externally. Have an
> idea to be able to access Exchange Server mailbox from a secure page.
> Tried to link an url to "http://servermx.exchange". Internally this
> work fine, but externally it is obviously trying to access the
> internal LAN IP, and can't find it. What modules(?) are required to
> perform this action, and config pointers would be appreicated.

Perhaps a reverse proxy is what you want. More information can be found on
the Apache web site.

Thor

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"Big Al" <alex.tame@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Am successfully running Apache, internally and externally. Have an
> idea to be able to access Exchange Server mailbox from a secure page.
> Tried to link an url to "http://servermx.exchange". Internally this
> work fine, but externally it is obviously trying to access the
> internal LAN IP, and can't find it. What modules(?) are required to
> perform this action, and config pointers would be appreicated.

Sounds like a name resolution issue to me. From the outside
servermx.exchange doesn't resolve to an IP address. You either need to hard
code an entry into the hosts file or you need to use an address that
resolves to the correct IP address.

Regards,
Dave.

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"David Brown" <dcb7@dcb7.dyndns.org> wrote in message news:<chc5mc$cbp$1@sparta.btinternet.c
om>...
> "Big Al" <alex.tame@gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:6258e46.0409031239.7394f148@posting.google.com... 
>
> Sounds like a name resolution issue to me. From the outside
> servermx.exchange doesn't resolve to an IP address. You either need to har
d
> code an entry into the hosts file or you need to use an address that
> resolves to the correct IP address.
>
> Regards,
> Dave.

Thanks for the replies peeps

Am making small change and am trying subdomain of webmail, and am
trying mod_proxy, as well as ProxyPass and ProxyPassReverse in the VH
section. Would I safe to use http://servermx/exchange or should I use
internal IP which is different to the Apache?

BTW, you may have gathered I an a newbie to all this, and at the
moment there's a lot of trial and error.

But your help is appreciated anyway

Big Al

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