[svlug] Multiple Web Servers on One IP

[Sargun Dhillon]

On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 3:07 PM, Chris Miller
<lordsauronthegreat at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 2:58 PM, Sargun Dhillon <xbmodder at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Stop using some device that has a terrible queuing method. What might
>
> Yes, I'm sure that no one ever bothered to ponder the queuing
> mechanism in the Apache webserver.  After all, it was made by a bunch
> of these "open-source" people.  Not much better than a thousand
> monkeys banging on keyboards, really...
>
> It's first-come first-serve.  I can't change that without making a
> custom build of Apache after having modified the Apache source code
> directly.  Unless there's some set of Apache directives I'm not aware
> of (which would be great).
>
>> be better is to run the crappy backend on some port which is 80 bound
>> to 127.0.0.2 (add this address to lo). Then run the download server
>> bound to 127.0.0.3. Use a lighty frontend with mod proxy to make
>> /downloads go to 127.3 and /!downloads to go 127.2. Its just that
>> simple!
>
> So bind Apache to another lo and then have lighty mod_proxy to Apache,
> which will queue normally, and also have lighty serve downloads like
> there's no tomorrow on the other domain.  They're domains, so it's
> really:
> http://www.fsdev.net/ <== web pages which eat memory like there's no tomorrow
> http://dl.fsdev.net/ <== files which download quietly, never eating
> crazy amounts of memory
>
> By turning the problem upside-down, it became solved.  Who knew...
>
>> Alternatively you can tell apache to bind to a non-80 port and run a
>> mod_proxy frontend to sort between the ports.
>
> I do not want to use any non-80 ports, since I do not want to run into
> a restrictive firewall.  I also don't want to run into any possible
> issues that may be caused by serving non-SSL pages and files through
> the SSL port (which would solve the problem and circumvent the wrath
> of the firewalls, but I may need SSL later, too!)
>
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