[mapserver-users] Web Server Tricks... Kind of Off Topic

[Paul Ramsey]

Two possibilities, one is a simple port forwarder.
The other is to set up your "main" web server as a proxy. With Apache
this is pretty straightforward, but I have no idea if IIS support
proxies. Basically with proxy'ing you can say "for subdirectory
/mapserver send all requests on to http://x/y" which is pretty cool.
P.

"Hankley, Chip" wrote:
> 
> I am by no means a guru at configuring / working out web server hardware /
> networking issues... and could use a little guidance.
> 
> Our main webserver is pretty much a dog. We're running a 200 MHz dual
> processor server w/ win2K and IIS... it handles a number of things for our
> company (besides mapserver)... and it is S L O W (i know... 200 MHz,
> Win2K... big part of the problem).
> 
> Anyway... my options are limited b/c of internal politics and the like - so
> Linux is out, as well as my own dedicated server.
> 
> What I'm wondering is if there is some way to "pass-through" my mapserver
> requests to a more powerful box within the organization. For instance, a MS
> request would come in, and instead of being processed on that server, the
> actual mapserver work (the process of rendering the image from the raw GIS
> data) would occur on another more powerful machine, and then the image
> either would be passed back for service to the client, or would be read
> directly from that machine. Is such a thing possible? What would be the
> performance implications of such a trick?
> 
> I think this is kind of how MO IMS and ArcIMS work in that there is a "Map
> Server" that runs as a service... not necessarily on the web server.
> 
> TIA
> 
> Chip Hankley

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