[OT] RE: (apache question) Working around MaxClients?

[Stathy Touloumis <st...@edventions.com>]

Why don't you setup apache to do proxying?

> I have a high traffic website (looks like 200 GB output per month,
> something around 100000-200000 hits per day) hosted on a commercial
> service. The service does not limit my bandwidth usage, but they limit the
> number of concurrent Apache process that I can have to 41. This causes the
> server to delay accepting new connections during peak times.
>
> My account is a "virtual server"; what this means is that I have access to
> the Apache httpd.conf files and can restart the Apache daemon, but do not
> have the priviledge to bind a program to port 80 (so I can't put thttpd on
> port 80).
>
> I was thinking of serving the HTML files from Apache and the JPG files
> from thttpd (thttpd uses select() so it always only uses up one process,
> no matter how many connections it's handling) on port 8080, but there's
> one disadvantage: People who browse my site from behind certain firewalls
> can only see port 80.
>
> Does anyone know of a way to configure Apache so that it will pass port 80
> traffic onto port 8080 somehow, without having access to modify the
> binary? It would have to do this without needing to spawn a child for
> every request though. Or is this impossible?

Re: [OT] RE: (apache question) Working around MaxClients?

[Philip Mak <pm...@aaanime.net>]

# Doesn't work. Children still get tied up serving requests.
#ProxyPass / http://www.animewallpapers.com:8080/
#ProxyPassReverse / http://www.animewallpapers.com:8080/

That doesn't get me around the limit of 41 Apache processes...

-Philip Mak (pmak@aaanime.net)

On Thu, 22 Feb 2001, Stathy Touloumis wrote:

> Why don't you setup apache to do proxying?
> 
> > I have a high traffic website (looks like 200 GB output per month,
> > something around 100000-200000 hits per day) hosted on a commercial
> > service. The service does not limit my bandwidth usage, but they limit the
> > number of concurrent Apache process that I can have to 41. This causes the
> > server to delay accepting new connections during peak times.
> >
> > My account is a "virtual server"; what this means is that I have access to
> > the Apache httpd.conf files and can restart the Apache daemon, but do not
> > have the priviledge to bind a program to port 80 (so I can't put thttpd on
> > port 80).
> >
> > I was thinking of serving the HTML files from Apache and the JPG files
> > from thttpd (thttpd uses select() so it always only uses up one process,
> > no matter how many connections it's handling) on port 8080, but there's
> > one disadvantage: People who browse my site from behind certain firewalls
> > can only see port 80.
> >
> > Does anyone know of a way to configure Apache so that it will pass port 80
> > traffic onto port 8080 somehow, without having access to modify the
> > binary? It would have to do this without needing to spawn a child for
> > every request though. Or is this impossible?