I can only say that I have used the IBM i Apache server as a proxy to IIS in the past without issue. It was just a bandage in our case because we had no DNS at the time and had browser home pages set to an IP address that moved. I never actually tried with multiple servers, but I don't see why it would not work. You just have one front end Apache that acts as a router, essentially, to the correct servers.
I do still have ProxyPass configured because I have the old Zend that uses two Apache instances with one in PASE. I'm no longer sending requests to another server.
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Sean Porterfield
-----Original Message-----
From: Richard Schoen
Sent: Friday, January 13, 2012 9:34 AM
To: web400@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [WEB400] Proxying Web Server Traffic Over Single External IP Address
True if I only had 1 web server.
In my case the back end could be an iSeries, Windows or Linux box, so I really want a generic reverse proxy.
Can Apache do that or should I look elsewhere ?
Looking at using an Astaro firewall box which our security team sells, but wanted to review pure software options as well.
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message: 4
date: Thu, 12 Jan 2012 11:29:44 -0500
from: "Porterfield, Sean" <SPorterfield@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
subject: Re: [WEB400] Proxying Web Server Traffic Over Single External
IP Address
I would expect you can forward port 80 in the firewall to a single Apache that has virtual hosts configured and use ProxPass there to pass back to the real servers doing the work.
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Sean Porterfield
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