RE: [squid-users] Reverse proxy to different servers for different urls

Appologies... all is working now.

I had squirm looking for the https url. However, squid had already
terminate the url and of course was passing http://.... to squirm! Doh!

Thank you for all the help.

Tim

>> You can use a redirector to do this. Check out Squirm
>> http://squirm.foote.com.au/ (what I use, you can write your own pretty
>> easily if you want) and use a regular expression like...
>>
>> /^(.*?)domainname\.com\/application1\/(.*)$/\1server1\/\2/
>>
>
> Hi,
>
> Thank you Gregori and Kinkie.
>
> I've got squirm working on it's own for handling redirects requests but
> don't seem to be able to get squid to actually use squirm. It is starting
> the process but does not seem to be passing anything to it.
>
> What am I doing wrong. I'm using "virtual" for the host which seems to be
> the way to tell squid to use redirectors.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Tim
>
>> That would take a url of *.domainname.com/* and change it to *.server1/*
>> without the "application1" portion.
>>
>> Redirectors: http://www.squid-cache.org/Doc/FAQ/FAQ-15.html
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Tim McAuley [mailto:timonline@mothy.net]
>> Sent: Wednesday, February 01, 2006 5:40 AM
>> To: squid-users@squid-cache.org
>> Subject: [squid-users] Reverse proxy to different servers for different
>> urls
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have been looking through the documentation and mailing archives and
>> have not found a clear way to do what I want.
>>
>> What I want is:
>>
>> Using a reverse proxy, I would like to be able to redirect requests to
>> different backend servers depending on the url being used (not the
>> server
>> name).
>>
>> I know it is possible to configure squid to work with multiple domains
>> and
>> point the request to different servers according to the domain name, so
>> I
>> want is pretty similiar, except using the same domain name all the time.
>>
>> Example:
>> http://domainname.com/application1/index.html -> squid -> server1
>> (http://server1/index.html)
>>
>> http://domainname.com/application2/index.html -> squid -> server2
>> (http://server2/index.html)
>>
>> Ideally, stripping out "application1/2" from the url but not necessary.
>>
>> Is this possible?
>>
>> I'm running on Squid 2.5, pre-compiled for windows (on windows 2000).
>>
>> Also, the incoming requests are https and these are converted to http
>> for
>> the final server. So after the ssl is decrypted, squid should be able to
>> see the url in the request (I assume).
>>
>> Any hints greatfully received.
>>
>> Many thanks,
>>
>> Tim
>>
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Received on Thu Feb 02 2006 - 07:45:43 MST