Re: Add IP for Apache?

[Pete Helgren <pete@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Pretty much on the same page as Brad.  Initially I had a bunch of 
virtual host entries but still had to bounce the whole server to make 
one change.  This way, I can create a new instance, test it locally and 
bounce it as many times as I want without affecting my "production" 
sites (really, nothing is "production" on my servers....always tweaking) 
and then when I am ready, I add the entry to the reverse proxy and only 
have to bounce it once.

From then on, any website that needs maintenance I can shut down AND 
the reverse proxy stays up with an outage notice for that particular 
site.  Keeps it all nicely separate.

I DO use SSL (LetsEncrypt) on the sites behind the reverse proxy and 
somewhere, in the bowels of this folder I call "organized documents", is 
something I documented about it.  Just have to find it.

Pete Helgren
www.petesworkshop.com
GIAC Secure Software Programmer-Java
Twitter - Sys_i_Geek  IBM_i_Geek

On 9/22/2017 6:27 PM, Pete Helgren wrote:
> And, not to add complexity, but in my particular case I have 7 or 8 
> sites running in various states of disarray so in order not to bring 
> down the whole stack to tweak the settings on one, I have a single 
> instance as a reverse proxy that passes traffic back to my other 
> instances.
>
> Also, in my case, I have one external IP so using the reverse proxy 
> makes it all simple and easy to manage external DNS and internal routing.
>
> Pete Helgren
> www.petesworkshop.com
> GIAC Secure Software Programmer-Java
> Twitter - Sys_i_Geek  IBM_i_Geek