reverse proxy solved

["Bradley V. Stone" <bvstone@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Sorry for not replying to keep this thread alive.  For some reason I don't
actually receive copies of my own posts.  This is also posted on
comp.sys.ibm.as400.misc for archival purposes:

Alright, figured this out myself..

So, i5 is running 2 sites using Virtual hosts.  PC running Apache running 3
sites.

i5 is the main server receiving requests through one static IP.

For the 3 servers running on the PC, I used the RewriteRule and a couple
other directives to pass those requests from the i5 to the PC.

<VirtualHost i5.ip.address:80>
   ServerName domain1.com
   ServerAlias *.domain1.com
   ProxyPreserveHost On
   RewriteEngine     On
   RewriteRule       ^(.*)$        http://xx.xx.xx.xx$1 [P]
</VirtualHost>

Replace "xx.xx.xx.xx" with    with the  local IP address of the PC running
the apache server for the other 3 sites.  Repeat the above virtualhost block
for each additional server running on the PC.

Works like a charm!  The ProxyPreserveHost directive is needed so that the
headers in the original request are forwarded on to the PC server, otherwise
it won't quite work.  IBM docs say that is only for ReverseProxy, but it's
not.  :)

Brad
www.bvstools.com