[horde] Re: Problem with Server name local LAN and Internet

[Andreas Oster]

Ron Hall wrote:
> Andreas Oster wrote:
> 
>> Jan Schneider wrote:
>>
>>> Zitat von andreas oster <aoster at novanetwork.de>:
>>>
>>>> Hello horde-users,
>>>>
>>>> I have run into a little problem with my horde installation.
>>>>
>>>> Users from inside our company should access the server with
>>>> his real name (http://servername.our-local-domain/horde) on port 80.
>>>> Users from outside can only access the server with https
>>>> through our firewall. The port 443 is NAT-ed from one of our
>>>> global addresses to its real local LAN IP. To access the server
>>>> we have a special webmail DNS entry. The problem is, that when
>>>> someone connects to the server the url in the browser is
>>>> rewritten with the local LAN server name, which is obviously
>>>> not working for users outside of our local LAN. Is it possible
>>>> to have different server names/URLs for local LAN and Internet ??
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Replace $_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'] with whatever returns the correct 
>>> host name
>>> for all cases in registry.php or conf.php (depending on your Horde
>>> version).
>>>
>>> Jan.
>>>
>>> -- 
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>>
>>
>> Dear Jan,
>>
>> thank you for your answer.
>> But now I have another question :)  If I get you right it is possible to
>> assign two/multiple values to $_SERVER['SERVER_NAME']. I looked in the 
>> conf.php for an instruction how to do this but unfortunately there was 
>> no explanation. Do I have to do something like
>>
>> $_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'] = array('LAN-name', 'web-name'); ???
> 
> 
>    ummm why not use DNS Round Robin and "hide" the names that way.
>    Then $_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'] remains single-valued
> 
>>
>> best regards
>>
>> Andreas
>>
> 
Hello Ron,

thank's for your reply, but I am not do deep in DNS-things so you 
stunned me a little bit :)

Can you please explain this in a little more detail.

best regards

Andreas