[rt-users] Tricky situation with rt-mailgate

Tuc at Beach House tuc at tucs-beachin-obx-house.com
Tue May 3 10:26:40 EDT 2005


> 
> On Mon, 2005-05-02 at 19:58, Tuc at Beach House wrote:
> > > My understanding is that rt-mailgate should be given an URL.  Can you just
> > > give the URL of a specific box rather than the load balanced URL (I am assuming
> > > the stuff behind the load balancer have distinct IP addresses)?  This would
> > > break load-balancing of RT when it comes through the mailgate, but should
> > > allow mailgate to access the RT web site.  Can probably hack the mailgate
> > > code to alternate the specific box IPs as well for the URL.
> > >
> > 	My problem with this is that RT's on a VH, so I can't call it 
> > directly by IP. (Boy, aren't I just a problem child!)
> 
> An entry in /etc/hosts on the calling machine lets you keep the
> name in the URL but hit the IP of your choice.
> 
	I just ended up creating an rt-mailhost virtual host and DNS entry and
things seems to be working. :) (Ok, well, it rejected my ticket, but it 
atleast processed it.)

	Thanks alot!

			Tuc



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