http and https same domain different servers

patftrears

Can I get
http://www.domain.com to point at one server
and
https/www.domain.com to point to another server

I will be running an application on the https, I just want to keep the website and email on a different machine for security and performance reasons.

If the above can't be done, can I do it with a sub domain.
https://sub.domain.com

Thanks

seamus

You can definitely do it with a different hostname.

So you have one server http://www.domain.com

and then a second https://secure.domain.com

This is a pretty common way to do it. You can resolve conflicts by catching all non-secure connections to secure.domain.com and redirecting them to www.domain.com (and vice-versa).

I'm sure a load balancer will allow you to use the same hostname for different services on different machines, but I would say that just using different hostnames is the easiest way.

CuLT

You can also just have http://domain.com and https://domain.com as https is generally run on port 443, http on 80.

Depending on how you intend to implement it, seamus' suggested method may be more appropriate.

patftrears

Thanks for the posts.

I going to go with a sub domain.
I think this is the general solution. Any comments welcome

Domain Name Provide
-> Here I set the name servers for HostingCoAAA

HostingCoAAA
-> Here I set an A record to direct the sub domain to HostingCoBBB