Linux SSL Offloader

Hello,

I would like to use Linux as an SSL Offloader.

Via a Load Balancing switch, SSL traffic is re-directed to 2 Linux
servers for SSL encryption/decryption. The web sites are not on the
same servers. The Linux servers are just used to offload the SSL
process.

HTTPS ---> Load Balancer ---> HTTP Web server
|
|
/ \
Linux Linux
SSL1 SSL2

What software is required on the Linux servers to perform this?

Thank you.

Charles

Apache can do this easily. Just google apache, ssl, reverse proxy.

cferland wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I would like to use Linux as an SSL Offloader.
>
> Via a Load Balancing switch, SSL traffic is re-directed to 2 Linux
> servers for SSL encryption/decryption. The web sites are not on the
> same servers. The Linux servers are just used to offload the SSL
> process.
>
> HTTPS ---> Load Balancer ---> HTTP Web server
> |
> |
> / \
> Linux Linux
> SSL1 SSL2

...
Isn't this scheme more correct:


HTTPS ---> Load Balancer
|
|
/ \
Linux Linux
SSL1 SSL2
| |
\ /
|
--- HTTP Web server

?


> What software is required on the Linux servers to perform this?
For SSL? Just run apache with mod_ssl + mod_rewrite + mod_proxy

you'll have something looking like this on SSL1 and SSL2 "mod_ssl.conf"
( or httpd.conf on apache 1.3 ):
<virtualhost *:443>

... ssl setup ..
modrewrite on

rewriterule ^(.*)$ http://http_webserver/$1 [P]

</virtualhost>



>
> Thank you.
>
> Charles
>