Re: Virtual Site Accelerator

> #define quoting(Oskar Pearson)
> // > We're running virtual WWW sites based on different IP addresses on a
> // > same machine. This is easy to do with W3C httpd and yet easier with
> // > apache.
> // >
> // > Now we're thinking about accelerating those pages with squid. Is
> // > there (will there be) some way to do virtual acceleration with squid
> // > other than running one squid process for each IP address ?
> //
> // what about using this?
> // httpd_accel virtual
>
> Maybe I was not very clear.
>
> I have more than one http server in the same machine, one per IP
> address.
>
> I'd like to use just ONE squid process to accelerate ALL http
> virtual addresses. But to to this, it needs to know from which
> address the request came, and select a virtual to accelerate in
> function of it.
>
> As far as I've seen until now, it's now (yet) possible to do this.
> But I may be wrong.
>
> Jonny

Using the 'virtual' keyword in squid.conf, squid is intelligent enough to
know which server to talk to. httpd on port 81, 'virtual 81' in
squid.conf will do the trick.

                        -keith
Received on Thu Oct 30 1997 - 02:13:21 MST