RE: FN-FORUM: IIS Forward Request to Another Server

date posted 6th February 2008 16:17

Since it is the router that is determining the direction of port 80 =
traffic unless the router understands host headers (Unlikely) the port =
80 traffic would have to go to one or the other server.

Once it gets there you could maybe do something with it. Is it a case of =
needing two web server for some reason, if it is just that they want to =
keep the files on one server could they not just have server 1 (http) =
access the files on server 2 via the network but still serve them via =
http from server 1?=20

Simplest way might be to get another external IP address and then you =
could split the port 80 traffic to the different internal servers =
assuming the router supports more than 1 external IP address w/routing.

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> Subject: FN-FORUM: IIS Forward Request to Another Server
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> To start with, please don't ask why as I've already been through this
> the
> client.
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> Anyhow, here's the scenario a client of ours has several Windows based
> servers with each running their own set of applications and some of
> these
> have web enabled applications such as Exchange. The client currently
> has one
> IP address and a few ports open on their firewall and Routing & Remote
> Access handles all the incoming requests and forwards the relevant
> ports to
> the relevant machines. So far so good, however the client now wants to
> re-direct some traffic on port 80 to one server and some traffic to
> another
> depending upon the host header which can be set-up in IIS.
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> We've already suggested to them that they either open another port, or
> sort
> out some sort of VPN, but the client is adamant that because you can
> already
> configure different host headers in IIS to display different websites
> you
> can also do this to send the request to a completely different server.
> I've
> had a look round in IIS and cannot see anything, just wondered whether
> anyone knew if this is possible
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> Colin Shipton
> Intrafusion Website Design & Development
> http://www.intrafusion.co.uk
> http://www.linkedin.com/in/intrafusion
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