Question: Different server behind path

Hi all,

I have quitte some Apache httpd experience but I am not sure how to solve this question from my company:

We have a corporate site at: http://www.example.com
We are implementing a new webshop and our Marketing dep. decided om: http://www.example.com/order

Due to the nature of the requests and for performance, I would like to host the web shop on two different webservers.
I thought of mod_proxy to create a reverse proxy on the webservers of example.com.

Are there any other ways to achieve this?
They do not want to expose a different name then www.example.com/order

Thanks in advance
Martijn

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Re: Question: Different server behind path

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On Tue, 2009-11-10 at 10:28 +0100, Martijn Moret wrote:
> Hi all,
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> I have quitte some Apache httpd experience but I am not sure how to solve=
this question from my company:
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> We have a corporate site at: http://www.example.com
> We are implementing a new webshop and our Marketing dep. decided om: http=
://www.example.com/order
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> Due to the nature of the requests and for performance, I would like to ho=
st the web shop on two different webservers.
> I thought of mod_proxy to create a reverse proxy on the webservers of exa=
mple.com.
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> Are there any other ways to achieve this?
> They do not want to expose a different name then www.example.com/order
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> Thanks in advance
> Martijn

This is exactly what ProxyPass{Reverse} is designed for; to present
multiple URI's (on the same or different physical servers) as one single
site to clients.



ServeName "www.example.com"
DocumentRoot "/var/www/html"

ProxyPass /order/ http://backend-order-server/order/
ProxyPassReverse /order/ http://backend-order-server/order/

etc...



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Mark Watts BSc RHCE MBCS
Senior Systems Engineer, Managed Services Manpower
www.QinetiQ.com
QinetiQ - Delivering customer-focused solutions
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