How can I redirect ports in Cherokee?

Question

I've installed cherokee and am very happy with it. But now I'm wondering how I can redirect ports. I'd like to redirect port 80 to other ports based on the hostname, as follows:

Request for http://a.mysite.com to http://mysite.com:8000
Request for http://b.mysite.com to http://mysite.com:9000

All help is appreciated.
Thanks a lot!

Answer 1

Good! Found out myself! :)

To redirect http://a.mysite.com to http://mysite.com:8000 follow these steps in the cherokee admin web environment:

• First create a virtual server with name a.mysite.com and give it a document root, e.g. /var/www/a.

• Then link to the sources tab and create a new information source by clicking the 'plus' icon. Enter a.mysite.com as nick and mysite:8000 as connection.

• Go back to the vServers tab. After making sure that the a.mysite.com server is selected check that the host match method is set to 'match nickname'.

• In the behaviour tab select the 'default' directory and in the handler tab select 'HTTP Reverse Proxy' from the handler dropdown list. Then select 'Round Robin' as balancer in the Back-end Server section.

• In the section Assign Information Sources section select a.mysite.com as application server.

• Then save and restart Cherokee.

You can preform the same process for b.mysite.com.

Or, when your site becomes more popular, you can add more application servers to a.mysite.com .