Re: Virtual Accelerator (was: Re: Squid and http server on the same machine)

robert@easynet.de writes:

>lukeh@xedoc.com writes:
> > Or, you could run the real http server on another port (eg. 81)
> > and run Squid as a http accelerator and proxy. I seem to recall
> > there were some reasons why you wouldn't want to do this
> > with Harvest, but we're running both (ie. accel+proxy) without
> > any problems.
>
>Which has the serious drawback that virtual hosts are not
>supported. Or am I wrong?
>
>I'd like to have one Squid running in proxy+accelerator mode on a
>machine with several IP addresses. The request should be forwarded
>differently depending on the IP address the client is connecting to.
>
>Is there anything planned to support this?

Its already in there. The -V option rewrites httpd-accel requests
with the IP address the request came in on.

Duane W.
Received on Fri Jul 05 1996 - 09:45:12 MDT