Using mod_proxy to convert a legacy IPv4 web site to IPv6
Monday, October 15th, 2007In preparation for the impending doom of IPv4, and in order to put my money where my mouth is [fr], I decided to make this blog natively accessible through IPv6.
The first problem I ran into is that my blog runs in a FreeBSD jail. Jails are a fine way to run a virtualized environment but they only support IPv4 at the moment. So I had the following options:
- implement IPv6 in jails myself (this wouldn’t have happened overnight);
- wait for someone else to;
- abandon the idea;
- find a workaround.
Finally I found a workaround, using Apache mod_proxy as a separate server to provide a IPv6 frontend (a configuration called reverse proxy). (more…)
