[squid-users] Reverse proxying identical directory structures

I asked this the other day, within a different thread. Hearing nothing back
I'll rephrase and start a new thread.

Scenario: An identical directory structure on 2 different servers. (iNotes
for webmail) Running Squid/3.0PRE successfully reverse proxying for multiple
back end webservers using the mysite.com/site1, mysite.com/site2 setup with
cache_peers. All of site1's content is within the site1 folder of that
server, site2's content is within the site2's folder off root of that
webserver. All we've had to do is make sure each webserver has content in a
uniquely named folder off of web's root.

With the single iNotes server it was easy to set up multiple ACLs for each
of the subdirectories on Notes. Having two servers with the same directory
structure makes this impossible to use now.

What is the best practice to reverse proxy these servers that have the same
directory structure. The desired result is have the users go to
mysite.com/notes1 or mysite.com/notes2 and have
"ip_of_notes1/icons/image.jpg" show up to the user has
"mysite.com/notes1/icons/image.jpg" and the same deal with Notes2. Can this
occur within Squid or does an Apache module or custom redirector need to
come into play? If from within squid, a sample would be nice. Maybe I'm
confused...this sounds more like a rewrite than a redirect, but it also
sounds like mapping and reverse mapping, which is what proxies do too.

Thanks!

Chris Perreault
Information Technology
The Wiremold Company
West Hartford, CT 06010
Received on Fri Dec 17 2004 - 05:40:31 MST