Posted by sgottenyc on 08/04/07 20:42

On Aug 4, 3:20 pm, Rik <luiheidsgoe...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 04 Aug 2007 20:44:51 +0200, <sgotte...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > Hello,
> > If you could assist me with the following situation, I would be very
> > grateful.
> > In my current position, we have to use a non-traditional server setup
> > to serve PHP-generated web pages.
> > Instead of the classic web server->database server setup, what they
> > have at my workplace instead is:
> > Apache on a frontend server -> needing to connect to IIS on a backend
> > server -> needing to connect to SQL Server on the same backend
> > server.
> > My questions:
> > 1) Is this sort of setup workable? Has anyone successfully used a
> > similar setup to this in the past?
> > 2) If so, how to do it? Can Apache be instructed to switch over
> > processing of PHP pages to the IIS on the other server via some sort
> > of Apache command? Is it instead some sort of programming issue that
> > I can fix by tweaking my code?
>
> Seems like unnecessary complication... If apache get's everything from
> IIS, why not simply set up a proxy, and let IIS serve everything if that's
> the main server....
>
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> Rik Wasmus- Hide quoted text -
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Do you mean using the mod_proxy Apache module?

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