I have client who has two seperate (internal) servers behind a router
One server windows server WebServer (192.168.2.201) hosts an intranet site
The other and Apache server BlogServer (192.168.2.202) host a blog.
Both use the HTTP protocol.
How can I set this up so that the servers are accessable externally (the client has a single external IP address) . If there was just one server using http, then I could use port forwarding to direct http traffic to the server, but as they both use http i can't see how I can do that - any ideas ?
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With a single external or "public" IP address, the only option you have is to put one of the webservers on a different port.
http://www.yourdomain.com:
http://www.yourdomain.com ---> blog site
Simply configure port forwarding on the router so that port 80 points to the blog server and port (8080 or whatever) points to the intranet site. Adjust the web server config on the intranet site to respond on the new port
depend on the firewall you're using.
some firewalls can have different rules based on the path.
example: http://blog.domain.com vs http://www.domain.com
or the other option: http://www.domain.com/blog
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by: MikeHolcombPosted on 2009-10-26 at 05:47:35ID: 25661669
I would review your Firewall or router configuration - which ever device you are using to perform NAT. Typically, these devices can also be used for PAT which would allow you to map different ports on the public IP to different ports and different IPs on the internal network.
For example, you could use x.x.x.x:80 for their main site and x.x.x.x:81 for their intranet site. x.x.x.x:81 would then be configured to point to y.y.y.y:80 where y.y.y.y is the IP of the intranet server.
Hope this helps...
Mike