[hunchentoot-devel] socket-connector and ssl-socket-connector?

[Sebastian Tennant]

Hi Cyrus,

Quoth Cyrus Harmon <ch-tbnl at bobobeach.com>:
> I'm happy to abandon my hunchentoot-vhost approach if there's a better
> option, but I'd hate to have to recode that stuff for no good reason. Any
> suggestions?

At one point I considered hunchentoot-vhost but decided against it.  It seemed
quite complex (at least to me).

Instead, I run hunchentoot behind lighttpd.  hunchentoot has acceptors
listening on various localhost ports and lighttpd is configured to send page
requests to one of those localhost ports depending on which host is identified
in the URL.

And that's it! "One host per port".  It works like a dream.

lighttpd's conf file needs a section that reads like this:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
 # proxy handling
 server.modules                += ( "mod_proxy" )

 $SERVER["socket"] == "123.456.78.90:80" {
     proxy.balance = "fair"
     $HTTP["host"] =~ "^example.com" {
         proxy.server   = ("" => (("host" => "127.0.0.1", "port" => 49154))) }
     $HTTP["host"] =~ "^foobar.org" {
         proxy.server   = ("" => (("host" => "127.0.0.1", "port" => 49155))) }
 }
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

I'm sure it's just as easy using Apache, but I'm afraid I've never used it so I
can't say precisely how it's done.

Hope this helps,

Seb
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