WinGate reverse proxy question

[ivionday]

Hi,
I am wondering if WinGate can forward an HTTP request to our internal servers based on the domain name in the HTTP request.

We have a linux firewall running DNS service and Squid for reverse proxy. We host a couple websites running from different internal servers, so the Squid inspects the domain requested and forwards the request appropriately.

For example, www.baslerdesign.com goes to our Apache web server, and apps.baslerdesign.com goes to my PC running IIS.

Squid derives its forwarding rules automatically from the machine's DNS configuration, and it is all kind of fragile and painful to add new domains. I am wondering if I can replicate this setup in Windows and operate it from a GUI instead of terminal; or if anyone has any other recommendations, I am all ears. The difficulty with this configuration arises mostly from my unfamiliarity maintaining the DNS (like named.conf , db.int.baslerdesign.com, db.ext.baslerdesign.com...) and all these things that I just barely grasp.

Thanks
Matt

[adrien]

Hi

short answer - yes, WinGate does reverse proxying, and you can set host headers that are matched on (e.g. the domain name part of the URL requested). You specify where to connect (inbound) for each "site" you set up, so you don't need to rely on DNS.

Adrien