Re: Introduction and first questions

["David Buckley" <db@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

--- In ukha_d@xxxxxxx, "Steve Elsbury" <steve.elsbury@t...>
wrote:

> Now my problem is that I run a public facing web-server, but
> only have a cheap hardware firewall, which is capable of
> routing port 80 traffic to one machine only (i.e. no clever
> stuff with http headers, etc.). So on my
> internal network, I can browse to the machine name of the HV PC
> and the web works fine, but I have no way of getting to those
> web pages from the internet - i.e. when I am not at home - as
> all the internet can 'see' is my public facing web server.
>
> Does anyone know of a way I can achieve this without buying a
> more expensive firewall?

Run delegate as an HTTP router handling the real port 80 incoming,
and use URL mapping to other servers, see http://www.delegate.org,
check out the "mount" command.

You can also do this with apache, but it looks like more work :-)




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