Web server outside firewall forward to internal server

I have a server inside of our firewall that is running a web-based
application. I want to setup a web server outside the firewall, and
have it forward traffic to the internal application. The server
inside the network has other applications on it, and for this reason I
do not want to put it outside the firewall.

How would I go about doing this? Basically I want the external
webserver to forward traffice to an internal website. I would also
like to use certificates since this site needs to be as secure as
possible.

I am open to using either IIS or apache, but prefer to use windows as
the OS.

With Apache, I believe you can do this using virtual hosts. Below is a link.
There are several different types of virtual hosts, you will have to decide
which best fits your needs.

Look for the section titled:
Serving the same content on different IP addresses (such as an internal and
external address).

http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/vhosts/examples.html

Hope this helps.


"Michael" <lumiya@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> I have a server inside of our firewall that is running a web-based
> application. I want to setup a web server outside the firewall, and
> have it forward traffic to the internal application. The server
> inside the network has other applications on it, and for this reason I
> do not want to put it outside the firewall.
>
> How would I go about doing this? Basically I want the external
> webserver to forward traffice to an internal website. I would also
> like to use certificates since this site needs to be as secure as
> possible.
>
> I am open to using either IIS or apache, but prefer to use windows as
> the OS.