How to on port redirection in Cherokee

Thursday, 30th December 2010, 1242hrs · jw · Cherokee

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

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

• 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.

Now the http://a.mysite.com will be redirected automatically to http://mysite.com:8000. And, when your site becomes more popular, you can add more application servers to mysite.com.