On Mon, 02 Oct 2006 18:35:03 +0200, Josiane BERNILLON wrote: > Mike - EMAIL IGNORED a écrit : >> I have two boxes on my intranet each running >> Apache 2.0 under FC4. My Linksys firewall directs >> port 80 to BoxA. Both boxes are also running >> iptables, including libipq. >> >> BoxA has my html tree. I have a number of .jpg >> files, some as large as 10 meg. The various >> directories containing the .html files contain >> soft links to the directories, in another tree >> containing, the .jpg files. >> >> All this is operated by a complex CGI, written in >> C++. Most of the .html files the client sees are >> generated by this CGI. >> >> I would like to move the .jpg tree to BoxB, >> transparent to the client. In broad terms, how >> should I do this? What should I read to get the >> particulars? >> >> Thanks for your help. >> >> Mike. >> >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. >> See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >> " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >> For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >> >> > Maybe one way to this : > > - let's say jour .jpg files are in /../......./imgs/ on BoxA > on BoxB: > - create a /../.../imgs2/ on BoxB > - copy your .jpg into .../img2/ > - start an NFS server on BoxB (I don't work on FC4, but if you don't > know anytaing about NFS, you can look here > <http://www.vanemery.com/Linux/NFSv4/NFSv4-no-rpcsec.html> > - share .../img2/ for BoxA > > on BoxA > - create a .../.../imgs3 > - mount .../img2/ on ..../img3/ > - change your soft links in the html tree to .../img3/ > > No problem for users. > > If they could wait some minutes, and if you have some BACKUP of your .jpg > on BoxA > - remove all .jpg from .../imgs/... > - mount .../img2/ on /imgs/ > then you don't need to change soft links. > > jobern > [...] This looks like a good possibility. It also appears from Apache documentation that ProxyPassReverse under virtual host might be able to accomplish what I need. Is this true? If so, how do the two methods compare with regard to efficiency and security? Thanks, Mike. --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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