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    This is exactly what I'm looking for, Jason. Thanx much. I knew how 
to establish the ssh port forwarding but the 'reverse proxy' concept is 
what I was trying to discover as my missing link.

       -- Ben Scherrey

Jason Day wrote:

>Ben,
>
>You might be able to do this using Apache's mod_proxy to setup a reverse
>proxy on your web server.  I've never tried this, but if you setup an
>ssh tunnel like:
>
>  ssh -L 8000:your.ip.com:80 your.ip.com
>
>Then setup mod_proxy to forward requests to localhost:8000.  You also
>might be able to use mod_rewrite, that might be easier to setup.
>
>Here's an article on reverse proxies:
&gt;<a  rel="nofollow" href="http://www.apacheweek.com/features/reverseproxies";>http://www.apacheweek.com/features/reverseproxies</a>
&gt;
&gt;Also, man ssh_config and checkout the ServerAliveInterval and
&gt;ServerAliveCountMax options, to keep your ssh tunnel from timing out.
&gt;
&gt;HTH,
&gt;Jason
&gt;  
&gt;


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