link: tux/apache virtualhosting

[David A. Sinck]

I recently discovered a problem in doing NameVirtualHosting forwarding
from tux (kernel httpd) to apache.

The tux docs suggest running tux on 80 and having it proxy complex
requests to 127.1:8080, so apache should listen on 127.1:8080 only
(for security, but if you're running a webserver in the first place,
even proxied.... but that's a different horse).  The trouble is that
the apache server somehow misses the VirtualHost directive that's tied
to 127.1:8080.

However, if you put your.real.ip:80, it works.  Which is peculiar
given that you're not *listening* on that setup.


The solution was documented in:

http://www.redhat.com/mailing-lists/tux-list/msg01905.html
 
which seems contrary to common sense, but I know it works.  :-)


David

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