I'm migrating to a new webserver (replacing my current Apache server with a new machine), and I thought that instead of using "just" Apache, I'd install lighty to listen on port 80 to serve most of the static content, and proxy some of the more scary stuff to Apache which I'd set up to listen on 127.0.0.1:8000 and 127.0.0.1:4443. However, one thing I'm not certain about. I am currently using a mix of name-based and IP-based virtual hosts with Apache. How to proxy them properly? With http I think it's easy, because I could just set up all vhosts in Apache as name-based. However, I don't think I can do this with HTTPS. Would it work, if I set up each ssl vhost on separate port (127.0.0.1:4443, 127.0.0.1:4444, ...) and then proxy accordingly? The idea just struck me while writing this post and at first glance it feels like it might work...
on 21.11.2007 20:05

