Forwarding apache hosted site though IIS

[Lee_K_81]

Not sure if i've put this in the right place, if it's possible or even if the title makes sense but here goes:

 

I have a Server 2003 server hosting school website (php, MySql, Joomla - yes webman et al. i know i could've used linux but the previous one was ASP.Net and we still use a bit of that ), it is accessible through council firewall. I have an internal server running ubuntu & apache and hosting a nagios installation.

 

What i would like to do is see my nagios stuff outside of school. Is there anyway that i can set IIS so that if somebody goes to http://www.schoolsite/nagios/ it looks at http://internalserver/nagios and displays the content to them. (all securityified obviously)

 

Not sure i explained that at all well.

[robk]

Hmm, I ended up doing this with http://www.isapirewrite.com/ as a purchased component. This allowed me to redirect two internal (Linux) servers via our iis6 intranet.

 

Not seen a free way of doing this (yet).

 

Rob K

[Lee_K_81]

Bugger. Thanks for the link, but not sure i can be justifying any cost for my convenience. Especially when i can use logmein.com (etc) to connect to a server and view nagios that way. Should soon be getting VPN access sorted soon so i suppose that will solve the problems for me, but it would be nice to have general access via the web

[webman]

Would it not be possible to do it the other way round? Eg. Apache on the nagios machine facing externally, and reverse proxy via mod_proxy to handle connections to the IIS box?

[maniac]

Would it not be possible to do it the other way round? Eg. Apache on the nagios machine facing externally, and reverse proxy via mod_proxy to handle connections to the IIS box?

 

My website is hosted like this. it's ASP based so runs better in IIS, but I wanted to use reverse proxy to use our webserver as a portal to other services in the school. You can't reverse proxy easily in IIS, so I installed apache as the front end server, reverse proxying to IIS on the same box(different port) for our main website. Works a treat.

 

If you can change your front end server to Apache, then it'll be much easier for you.

 

Mike.

[Joedetic]

I've never done reverse proxying using IIS but I use it on Apache in conjunction with name based vhosts.

 

I've got a bit of documentation on how I setup Apache on my freebsd server at home and it has stuff for reverse proxying. I don't know if this is going to be a comprehensive aid to you but you're most welcome to look.

 

http://jznet.biz/doku_wiki/doku.php?id=freebsd:apache22

 

(Btw...that's hosted on a box that's reverse proxied onto the internet)

[Lee_K_81]

Thanks for the replies all, given me some things to think about!

[fooby]

First google result.

 

http://www.google.com/search?client=opera&rls=en&q=iis+reverse+proxy&sourceid=opera&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8

 

seems like there are many options.