Stuart Henderson wrote:
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> On 2007/07/08 15:30, Chris Cappuccio wrote:
>> Stuart Henderson [stu@spacehopper.org] wrote:
>>> Or use different ports and proxy them based on host headers rather
>>> than burning IP addresses (for some RIR you are expected not to use
>>> IP addresses for non-SSL virtual web hosting).
>>>
>>> I haven't checked, but hoststated should be able to do this.
>> What software would you run on port 80 to break out the requests to the
>> various apache instances?  Squid with accelerator mode seems like a massive
>> beast to use for this purpose.  Any smaller apps?
> 
> I thought you may already be able to use hoststated but I was mistaken.
> The least intrusive way to add it there may be to provide a new action
> that matches on the Host: header and allows the table name to be over-
> ridden (obviously this is only any good with relay, not PF tables).
> 
> Other than that, it looks like Apache mod_proxy (ProxyPass) can be
> configured per-virtual-host so that should work.
> 
> http://www.apsis.ch/pound/ is another option but I don't know how
> well it works on OpenBSD. I think I've seen it run here, but I don't
> know if it really works well.
> 
> Varnish can probably do this too, but doesn't run here at all.
> (It's a bit of an unusual app...)
> 

I can vouch that Pound works very well on OpenBSD, and is very BSD-like
in its style and philosophy, the developers aiming of simple, readable,
provable code doing a specific job well.

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