Re: Hiding Lotus Domino Behind Apache Server

["Roger Vicker, CCP" <rv-lists@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Rich,

Glad to be of help for once.

Roger

On 12/15/2004 6:59 AM, Rich.Frye@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

> Roger,
> I appreciate the update and will take your advice on a static Web page. 
> Hope you have a great holiday.
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> "Roger Vicker, CCP" <rv-lists@xxxxxxxxxx> 
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> Rich,
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> With the Domino plugin in Apache any request for "Welcome" page 
> (http://mydomain.com) will get the Apache served pages.
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> Only requests that the plugin recognizes as being for Domino (I think it 
> must have a .nsf as in http://mydomain.com/xyz.nsf) will be requested 
> from the Domino port and forwarded out as the response.
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> That is, Apache doesn't redirect, so you don't need to open the Domino 
> port on your firewall. It just repeats the request to Domino and repeats 
> the answer it gets to the client. Therefore, the only change your ISP 
> would have to make is if the Apache is at a different IP address than 
> the old one.
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> I think you will have to setup your homepage as a static page in Apache 
> and have Domino pages as a link from there. I don't think you can have 
> the "Welcome" page come from Domino via Apache unless something can be 
> done with server side includes or something else special about the 
> "Welcome" page that Apache serves.
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> A request that ends in "/", which just going to the domain implicitly 
> does, has Apache look for files in the "document root" that match the 
> files listed on the "Welcome Page" tab. If the URL looks more like a 
> path with more "/"s then it uses them as sub folders in "document root" 
> and looks for the same files. If "document root" = /www/server1 and 
> "Welcome Page" = index.html then http://yourdomain.com/abc/xyz will look 
> for /www/server1/abc/xyz/index.html
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> Now you can use other Apache directives to point URL paths to entirely 
> different IFS folders, but that is for advanced Apache which I haven't 
> really reached yet.
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> Roger
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> On 12/14/2004 12:11 PM, Rich.Frye@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
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> > I can access my homepage if I type in my IP Address:81 from my internal 
> > network, pretty typical. 
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> > When I attempt to use port 80, I get the default Apache page. 
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> > My ISP points to my Web site on a server about to be replaced (once this 
> > is resolved) over port 80.
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> > I thought that Apache would redirect incoming requests on port 80 for 
> > Domino to port 81.  Don't know what I am missing?
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> > Rich,
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> > I did this at Domino 6.0.3 and OS/400 V5R1 and have upgraded to Domino 
> > 6.5.1 and OS/400 V5R2 (soon V5R3) so am close to your config.
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> > The documents are fairly simple. Change the HTTP port in Domino, add the 
> > Domino plugin to Apache (you did mean the one on the iSeries...), tell 
> > it the port Domino is listening on, restart everything. There may have 
> > been an "Apache plugin" to add to Domino but it should also be in the 
> > documents. I don't really remember one just that the documentation was 
> > pretty straight forward and I was done in an hour.
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> > Actually using it may take a little more. All we used it for was access 
> > to webmail via http://yourdomain.com/mail/usermailfile.nsf
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> > Roger Vicker, CCP
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> > On 12/13/2004 1:32 PM, Rich.Frye@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
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> > > I would like to hide my Domino 6.5.2 server behind my Apache 2 server. 
> > > Anyone attempt before?  I am running 5.3 on my iseries
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