[Xitami] Redirecting By IP Address

[MRJ InfoTech Admin]

What I don't understand is why you would need two different servers to 
route a virtual host?
Well then I understand your case a bit better and it would be as the 
previous caller said, reroute the signal by an internal DNS server.


At 17:40 19/04/2006, you wrote:
>I'm not quite sure what you're saying.
>We only have one external IP address, which is being used by a primay
>site (hosted by Apache).
>The secondary site, hosted by Xitami, is on a LAN.  We can not put it
>any farther out because we do not have another IP address and I do not
>want to put a Windows machine right on the Internet.
>The problem lies with the Location header.
>When a directory is requested with out the trailing slash (eg:
>example.com/foo instead of example.com/foo/), Xitami does what it
>should and sends a 302 moved temporally header, trying to redirect the
>client to /foo/.  The problem is that the Location: used by Xitami is
>it's IP address, NOT the host supplied by the browser (as, I believe,
>it should be).
>Here is what the transaction looks like:
>
>Browser:
>GET /foo HTTP/1.1
>Host: xitami.example.com
>
>Xitami:
>HTTP/1.0 302 Moved Temporarily
>Vary: Host
>Location: http://192.168.1.2/foo/
>
>But this is what it should say:
>HTTP/1.0 301 Moved Permanently
>Location: http://xitami.example.com/foo/
>
>I hope this clarifies things.
>David
>
>On 4/19/06, MRJ InfoTech Admin <admin at mrjdesign.net> wrote:
> >  Your DNS server should route the traffic
> >  your Xitami should be on a machine on the outside of your fire walled
> > router or a DMZ machine
> >  Then you can skip the double router step of the apache hack.
> >  All IP to Domain name is routed through, say BIND 9.3 or different DNS
> > solutions only.
> >  Xitami only handles Virtual host routes on that same IP to specific
> > directed domains, still routed with DNS albeit virtual.
> >
> >  MRJ
> >
> >
> >
> >  At 15:58 19/04/2006, you wrote:
> >
> >
> > Hey,
> >  I've been put in charge of making an Xitami work.  It is running on a
> >  virtual machine with a local IP address (192.168.10.2), and it's
> >  mother host is using Apache's mod_proxy to forward requests from the
> >  outside to Xitami, then send Xitami's response back to the world.
> >  The problem I'm having is that, in Xitami-generated Location: headers,
> >  it is using it's IP address (192.168.10.2) instead of it's hostname
> >  (fs.example.com).  I have set up it's hostname in xitami.cfg and I
> >  have set the computer's hostname to the same.
> >  We are not using any sort of virtual hosting and (as far as I know)
> >  the config is pretty much stock.
> >  Any help would be much appreciated.
> >  David
> >
> >
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