[Cialug] Best way to host webservers at home

[Tom Pohl]

Actually, what Matt has described sounds more like reverse proxy which can be done with several different products, but here's a link for squid:

http://wiki.squid-cache.org/ConfigExamples/Reverse/MultipleWebservers

-Tom

On Dec 19, 2011, at 11:51 AM, Eric Junker wrote:

> I don't know if this will solve your problem, but Apache "Dynamically configured mass virtual hosting" may be useful to you
> 
> http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/vhosts/mass.html
> 
> Eric
> 
> On 12/19/2011 10:05 AM, Matthew Nuzum wrote:
>> Hello, I'd like to set up an environment at home where I can host
>> multiple VMs (or maybe even an open stack setup) in order to expose web
>> services to the public.
>> 
>> I have one server that runs constantly, it could act as a proxy or
>> forwarder. I have two more servers that will run virtual machines
>> (virtualbox or openstack probably).
>> 
>> The goal is to make staging and development easier. Therefore there are
>> two varieties of sites I will run:
>> 
>>  * "Production" type sites where a virtual machine runs a web server on
>> port 80
>>  * "Development" type sites where a Django or Rails site is running on
>> port 8080 or 8000
>> 
>> My intention is to point a wild-card domain to my home router
>> (*.v5.iowatechies.com <http://v5.iowatechies.com>) and what I'd love is
>> to be able to map *.x.v5.iowatechies.com <http://x.v5.iowatechies.com>.
>> So for example, EC2 uses something like this for x: ec2-11-22-33-44
>> (wich is a pointer to 11.22.33.44 IP address). I'd be happy with this
>> but I'd love to be able to have multiple domains at each host, hence the
>> wildcard *.x.v5.iowatechies.com <http://x.v5.iowatechies.com>.
>> 
>> What would you recommend? And, for the record, imho, simpler is better
>> than better.
> 
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