Mailing List Archive: Domains and backhand

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Hello All:

I=B4m about to make an implementation of a cluster, and the idea is to =
use backhand to accomplish this.

Here is my question:

I have this domain www.foobar.com , and I will be clustering with two =
servers. Now, as far as I=B4ve read, those servers will need to have =
different names like www1.foobar.com and www2.foobar.com. Is there a way =
to keep the name www.foobar.com and make backhand redirect to the =
appropiate server without changing the URL?

Thanks a lot

Gabriel Maffia.

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Gabriel Maffia wrote:

> I have this domain www.foobar.com , and I will be clustering with
> two servers. Now, as far as I´ve read, those servers will need to have
> different names like www1.foobar.com and www2.foobar.com. Is there a
> way to keep the name www.foobar.com <http://www.foobar.com> and make
> backhand redirect to the appropiate server without changing the URL?

The only reason you need to name the different is if you need to have
them show up with different names in the /backhand/ summary page, or if
you plan on doing HTTP redirection instead of proxying.

I always name my webserver differently.. That way when you get an
internal server error it says which machine and if you have a web
application you don't need to go calling gethostname() to get the
machines name, it is in the server configuration.

Use a virtualhost and set the ServerName to www.foobar.com.

Like:

ServerName www-s1-1.hostingcompany.com
NameVirtualHost myipaddress:80

<VirtualHost myipaddress:80>
ServerName www.foobar.com
....
</VirtualHost>

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