Best LAN Setup?

Well, heres my two cents worth with an explanation up front.

ADSL2+ with Dynamic IP Address coming into a Billion 7800N Wireless ADSL2+ Modem / Router

Mac Pro , 2 iMac's, MacBook, 2 x windows laptops ( school supplied for kids!), 1 Ubuntu laptop, 2 iPads, 3 Ipod Touches, 3 iPhones and other ancillary stuff!

1 Ethernet Bridge

1 Powerline Bridge

1 Netgear Wireless Router providing wireless lan

1 TimeCapsule providing wireless lan

1 Netgear NAS

2 x Powerware 5110 UPS

Mac Pro runs

OS X Server with 3 public domains running Mail / Web / Wiki / DNS / Address Book / Calendar / OD / Profile Manager and two Minecraft Servers for my son ( !)

Web sites served on OS X

1st domain - OSSEC ( via webapp and directory alias) , Webmail ( via webapp and directory alias) , Wiki,

2nd domain - Drupal CMS, SugarCRM CE, Drupal Dev site.

3rd domain - HTML site

1st Domain also has webapps that point to the Ubuntu VM and redirect mycomain.com/OpenNMS etc as well as an R Server (RStudio) on one of the iMac's and the Netgear NAS.

Ubuntu Server running under a VM on the OS X Server with separate tcp address

1. Runs NetworkUPSTools for UPS Monitoring and auto shutdown of all equipment (problem with the NUT USB driver for OS X, but works perfectly under Ubuntu) Has a html / CGI interface for graphical monitoring

2. Runs OPENNMS and Cacti - also both addressable via http.

DNS has 3 Zones with 1 nameserver and MX record per zone pointing to the OS X server + machine records for the iMacs and the Netgear NAS.

Each Zone has an alias for any web site served by Web Sites in OS X Server

OS X Server DNS serves all client requests in the house so that I dont need different setups for the 3G iPads and iPhones outside of the house. (i.e. mail server address is a fqdn of the server) VNC apps work inside or outside the house with the same host address etc.

Multiple webapps for apache redirects within the network for the above

Here's an example of one of the webapps for proxy requests to a different machine ( actually the Ubuntu VM).

It puts a dinky little Webapp selector within the Server.app Website tabs.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">

<plist version="1.0">

<dict>

<key>name</key>

<string>com.mydomain.moria.proxy</string>

<key>displayName</key>

<string>MoriaProxy</string>

<key>proxies</key>

<dict>

<key>/moria</key>

<dict>

<key>path</key>

<string>/moria</string>

<key>urls</key>

<array>

<string>http://10.0.0.89</string>

</array>

</dict>

</dict>

<key>installationIndicatorFilePath</key>

<string>/var/moriaproxy.flag</string>

<key>requiredModuleNames</key>

<array>

<string>proxy_module</string>

</array>

<key>requiredWebAppNames</key>

<array/>

<key>sslPolicy</key>

<integer>0</integer>

</dict>

</plist>

Hope that helps.

Do you have your iPad seeing realms inside your dev box?

Because I use the OS X Server as the DNS provider for the internal network, it works seamlessly as long as you have a machine record set up in the zone. e.g.

Primary Zone 1 - mydomain.com

Nameserver Rec - server.mydomain.com

Machine Rec - server.mydomain.com 10.0.0.80

Machine Rec - moria.mydomain.com 10.0.0.89

Machine Rec - nas.mydomain.com 10.0.0.100

Machine Rec - myimac.mydomain.com 10.0.0.90

My Network Setup for everything is:

Manual IP address for those machinres that need a static IP

DHCP and Router/Gateway 10.0.0.125

DNS 10.0.0.80 mydomain.com

Because I have apache proxy's setup (like my example) when I am connected to wifi with the iPad I can type

http://moria.local ( DNS Lookup) or http://server.local/moria or http://mydomain.com/moria (DNS Lookup + apache Proxy redirect)

Outside the wifi network I type http://mydomain.com/moria to get to 10.0.0.89:80 or http://mydomain.com/nas to get to 10.0.0.100:80

Cheers

Gerry

OK, back up a step - I was just editing my response re the VHost issue.

So I also have multiple Vhosts running under OS X Server.

ie. crm.mydomain.com - SugarCRM

crm2.mydomain.com - SugarCRM DEV

ossec.mydomain.com - OSSEC Web Interface via cgi

www.mydomain.com - Drupal CMS

www2.mydomain.com - Drupal CMS DEV

webmail.mydomain.com - Roundcube

Each one of these requires an alias entry in the Server DNS setup like:

Domain - mydomain.com

Host - crm

Destination - server.mydomain.com

Does that answer the question?

Well I can confirm that

https://server.local/webmail

and

https://ossec.server.mydomain.com

works, but

https://ossec.server.local/

does not!