webserver to webserver access via VPN

Hello,

Have a w2003 box acting as a file server via a VPN to 10 or so people.
It also has a IIS web server running.
Need to make this webserver (which is "private") accessable via a
"public" web server hosted by an ISP running apache 2.x running virtual
hosts on linux (suse 9.0).
Not quite sure what options there are.

a PPP client on the linuxbox perhaps- so when user logs into public
webserver a connecttion is made onto the W2003 box via the VPN -
allowing http requests?

TIA


Ton

A connection never goes "through" one web server to another,...it just
doesn't work like that. It is the user's browser that controls
everything,...if the user's browser is told by a link on the first web
server to access something else on another web server, the browser just
simply goes directly to the second web server. It never goes "through" the
first web server to get there.

--
Phillip Windell [MCP, MVP, CCNA]
www.wandtv.com

The views expressed are my own (as annoying as they are), and not those of
my employer or anyone else associated with me.
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"ton de w" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Hello,
>
> Have a w2003 box acting as a file server via a VPN to 10 or so people.
> It also has a IIS web server running.
> Need to make this webserver (which is "private") accessable via a
> "public" web server hosted by an ISP running apache 2.x running virtual
> hosts on linux (suse 9.0).
> Not quite sure what options there are.
>
> a PPP client on the linuxbox perhaps- so when user logs into public
> webserver a connecttion is made onto the W2003 box via the VPN -
> allowing http requests?
>
> TIA
>
>
> Ton
>

Yes, but given that the 2nd webserver is on a w2003 box accessable only
by a W2003 VPN how do I arrange for a connection between the 2 boxes in
the first place?
So the webserver initially connected to by the web browser can pass
requests onto the 2nd W2003 webserver...
Phillip Windell wrote:
> A connection never goes "through" one web server to another,...it just
> doesn't work like that. It is the user's browser that controls
> everything,...if the user's browser is told by a link on the first web
> server to access something else on another web server, the browser just
> simply goes directly to the second web server. It never goes "through" the
> first web server to get there.
>
> --
> Phillip Windell [MCP, MVP, CCNA]
> www.wandtv.com
>
> The views expressed are my own (as annoying as they are), and not those of
> my employer or anyone else associated with me.
> -----------------------------------------------------
>
>
>
> "ton de w" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:(E-Mail Removed) ups.com...
> > Hello,
> >
> > Have a w2003 box acting as a file server via a VPN to 10 or so people.
> > It also has a IIS web server running.
> > Need to make this webserver (which is "private") accessable via a
> > "public" web server hosted by an ISP running apache 2.x running virtual
> > hosts on linux (suse 9.0).
> > Not quite sure what options there are.
> >
> > a PPP client on the linuxbox perhaps- so when user logs into public
> > webserver a connecttion is made onto the W2003 box via the VPN -
> > allowing http requests?
> >
> > TIA
> >
> >
> > Ton
> >

"ton de w" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed) ups.com...
> Yes, but given that the 2nd webserver is on a w2003 box accessable only
> by a W2003 VPN how do I arrange for a connection between the 2 boxes in
> the first place?
> So the webserver initially connected to by the web browser can pass
> requests onto the 2nd W2003 webserver...

You can't.
Both Servers have to be accessable to the user.

The best you can do is use a Virtual Folder on the first server that points
to a "share" on the second server. The share must be accessable to the
IUSR_<servername> on the first server. It can get messy, ungly, requires
the changing of passwords and the creation of a user account,...but that can
be possible.

--
Phillip Windell [MCP, MVP, CCNA]
www.wandtv.com

The views expressed are my own (as annoying as they are), and not those of
my employer or anyone else associated with me.
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