A reverse proxy is a type of proxy server. Unlike a traditional "forward proxy" server, a reverse proxy fetches resources from a specific defined set of servers for a client. The Apache HTTPD server's mod_proxy module is a popular example of software that can be used as a reverse proxy. A reverse ...
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High availability architecture for a small business
We are a small startup. In our current setup we have a dedicated server in a remote location. Our website and applications are hosted in that server. Website and some applications are in PHP and the ...
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Apache proxypass virtual hosting for backend redirection
I have a apache proxy load balancer running. I have a domain wiki.mydomain.com registered to this lb. I am trying to make proxy redirect from wiki.mydomain.com to the backend ...
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ErrorDocument when using Apache as reverse-proxy
'evening,
I have an Apache server (2.2.19) and a 4D Webstar server (kinda unknown HTTP server) on the same physical server. Apache only listens the SSL port (443) and is used as a reverse-proxy to ...
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Simple Apache2 Reverse Proxy config not working
I've installed Apache2 on 2 ubuntu 11.10 VMs and I am trying to get a very basic Reverse Proxy working.
I have nothing but the default site setup on each. I want to go to http://server.com/app and ...
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Nginx to proxy to Apache
I'm trying to setup Nginx as a reverse proxy to Apache for a site running locally on :8080 and externally accesible via lessico.pistacchioso.com. The current configuration leads to a 502 - Bad Gateway ...
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Tips setting up nginx as proxy for php and node frameworks
We have a current, soon-to-be legacy PHP app installed in production, served with apache. Working fine.
Currently trying to add in new Node.js alpha stack, which we're planning to install alongside ...
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how do reverse proxies know which content is static?
I was looking at the setup of reverse proxies, like nginx in front of apache, to reduce load on webservers for serving static content.
For any given URL, our web pages will have different parts ...
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Multiple ProxyPass directives for Webmin on Debian Apache Server
I am trying to achieve what is described under:
Webmin In A Sub-Directory Via A Proxy
on this website
Webmin under Apache Guide
...but, with more than one webmin (all on different servers, but ...
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nginx does not write to cache behind Varnish
I have nginx as a reverse proxy to a remote web server. Cache is written to file. However, when I place Varnish in front of it, nginx stops writing to cache file, which causes a performance hit and it ...
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Persistent web cache?
I'm building nginx cache on a development machine and try to copy the files to a server that has the same nginx cache settings. But nginx is not picking up my copied caches and overwrite my caches.
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Exclude urls containing a specific port from being passed by Proxy
how can I force ProxyPass / ProxyPassReverse NOT to pass a request if the client provides a certain port?
The following passes EVERY request made to the machine correctly:
<VirtualHost ...
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Apache reverse proxy with VirtualHost not serving a page
I have an Apache reverse proxy set to move requests to a Tomcat Applet. The config is similar to:
<VirtualHost 100.100.100.100:80>
ProxyPass /AppName/App http://1.1.1.1/AppName/App
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Infinite redirect with Wordpress proxied from Apache
We're trying to setup Apache on a public server to proxy requests to Apache with WordPress on another server, but we're getting infinite redirect loops.
Requests starting with www.example.com/about ...
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Nginx, redirecting a location block to another
For uri's starting with /c/ , I want to do a memcached key test, and return the key's value if exists. If there is no key, it should pass it to proxy.
I do it with this directive:
location ^~ /c/ {
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How can I protect a Tomcat webapp that's reverse proxied in an Apache2 virtual host using basic authentication?
I'm having trouble figuring out how to adding basic HTTP authentication to password-protect a development testing environment running on a production web server. Both the main site and the testing ...
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mysql/web server failover setup using reverse proxy
I have two webservers and at the moment have DNS - Round Robin setup so that they are somewhat 'failsafe' this was only ever a temporary failover solution and I am now looking at a more permanent and ...
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How does CloudFlare protect a web site?
I am a little confused about the protection CloudFlare offers. I am directing the www subdomain through CloudFlare with an Orange Cloud, and another subdomain (let's say direct) with a Grey Cloud. But ...
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Host Multiple Web Applications Under a Single Domain
I have a single Domain that I would like to share across two web applications. One Wordpress, the other Rails hosted on two separate servers. Specifically, I would like a handful of url resources ...
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Apache running as reverse proxy using proxy balancer traffic does not seem to get distributed evenly
We have Apache running as reverse proxy using proxy balancer we run a jMeter load test from 7 Cloud machines but the traffic does not seem to get distributed evenly I'm thinking it's an Apache config ...
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Is NFS caching suitable for caching large files (200kb to 50mb?)
I have a 1TB disk on one server that 4 other servers frequently access via NFS to distribute the files over HTTP. I'm seeing a high load on the central server and want to cache these files on the ...
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nginx proxypass rewrite base url
I'm trying to setup Nginx to forward requests to several backend services using proxy_pass.
A few of them don't support being accessed under a sub-folder, so I have to add a rewrite to strip the ...
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Apache ProxyPassReverse remaps domain name but not port
I'm trying to use an Apache proxy as a front-end for a service running on a different server in my infrastructure. Let's call them proxy.example.com and service.example.com.
Proxy.example.com is ...
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Apache proxy cookies works only with the first app
stuck on configuring apache as proxy for applications running on tomcat on different pc. Everything seems working on the first application - WebApp1. But on the left ProxyPassReverseCookiePath is not ...
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How to use Bugzilla behind a reverse proxy Apache?
We have a bugzilla service sitting on a internal server. We are trying to make it accessible from outside via an Apache server which will act as a proxy.
So far, with mod_proxy and mod_proxy_html, we ...
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httpd access log, ip logged is reversed proxy how to find actual proxy
Check access log and found out that the IP that was logged from users came from the reversed proxy server.
The setup is like this
www.abc.com -> reversed proxy to my server 123.123.123.123
Is ...
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Apache Reverse Proxy and two OWA servers plus another SSL server
I'm trying to use Apache Reverse Proxy to proxy back to two different OWA servers on the same domain. I also want to add on another SSL server to be on the Reverse Proxy. I'm got the Reverse Proxy ...
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nginx proxypass monit links
I'm trying to setup Nginx to forward requests to several backend services using proxy_pass.
Loading https://example.com/monit works, however the links within the page are to https://example.com/sshd ...
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how to make varnish listen on several ports
I have multiple virtual machines with two services on two different ports on each of them. I want to access to these service with url like http://virtual_url_1:80 and http://virtual_url1:8080 for the ...
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load mod_proxy and mod_proxy_http modules of apache in centos
here's my system:
CentOS release 5.6 (Final)
Server version: Apache/2.2.21 (Unix)
Cpanel::Easy::Apache v3.7.2 rev9999
I am trying to create a reverse proxy to load files from another server onto my ...
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Nginx, as a reverse proxy to a site which serves HTTP and HTTPS without sub domain distinguish
Here the scenario.
example.com server, serves either 80 or port depends on user's choice.
This server is to be moved behind an instance of Nginx which will act as reverse proxy (and load balancer) ...
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Multisite Nginx reverse proxy routing to Apache
I'm running an Ubuntu 10.04 nginx server, with a reverse proxy to apache (to run munin monitoring).
This is an excerpt of my default Apache site file:
<VirtualHost *:8090>
ServerAdmin ...
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How to switch between different webservers on same IP based on hostname?
At my place I have 4 servers, each running Win2008r2-WEB running as webserver with all a different kind of server running (TomCat, IIS, Apache, ZendServer), each server also has a different IP-address ...
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Can nginx be made to cache upstream responses containing an X-Accel-Redirect header?
I am using nginx as a reverse proxy in front of application server. The application responds with an X-Accel-Redirect header telling nginx which static file to serve. What I'd like to be able to do is ...
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Making mod_proxy_http send back response asynchronously (w/o 100 Continue)
A servlet engine (Jetty) is running behind an Apache Httpd server, forwarded using mod_proxy_http. This is running a small servlet that accepts PUT requests and is authenticated using HTTP Basic ...
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Reverse proxy with a cross-platform-friendly API?
I'd like to provide some fail-over capacity to our web farm, so I'm looking at various open-source reverse proxy platforms (haproxy, nginx, Varnish, Cherokee, and Squid) to direct http and SSL traffic ...
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nginx as reverse proxy with upstream SSL
I'm building a proxy for an internal API to allow clients to connect without having to have the self-signed certificates installed.
Clients (built, owned and used only internally) will connect over ...
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nginx shows 403 after http auth successful when proxying
I have a basic sinatra app which is behind nginx so that I can use HTTP Basic Auth to protect it, but I get a 403 Forbidden error instead of seeing the webapp. The app works fine when I remove the ...
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use a offside proxy server to optimize site delivery?
Actually we have following setup for our website that gets traffic around the world:
All JS, Images, Photos are stored on a CDN: Cloud Files ("Akamai light" powered).
The WebApp server who send the ...
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1 static IP, 2 web servers with 2 dns working with mod_proxy. Can I do the same with a CISCO router?
I have:
Cisco Router
One static IP.
2 different Web servers with 2 domain names
I have configured a Apache reverse proxy with mod_proxy and is working ok but....
I´m investigating if its posible ...
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Reverse Proxy and the Reponse
So I researched what a reverse proxy does, but I'm confused as to how embedded links within the response get handled, or if the reverse proxy does anything with them.
I'm planning to use a reverse ...
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Apache2 Reverse Proxy Keeps Giving Error 500
No really sure whats happening when I try and reverse proxy but I keep getting Error 500. I have mod_proxy and mod_proxy_html enabled and my conf file for the reverse proxy looks as so:
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Publishing multiple web servers with reverse proxy on localhost, retaining original client IP and hostname
I have been using ISA on Windows Server 2003 to publish multiple web servers hosted on the same machine. Setup as follows:
ISA HTTP/S listener bound to 127.0.0.1 + external IP
IIS bound to 127.0.0.2
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Apache ProxyPass only if from a Subdomain
I have two servers, both running Apache.
Server 1 and 2 are on the same Public IP address.
Server 1 has a Network IP of 192.168.1.101
Server 2 has a Network IP of 192.168.1.102
example.com goes to ...
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I want this to be transparent juste entering 10.rebound proxy apache
I'm able to access idracs interfaces via X11 tunneling on a server. I want to be able to access it from the same network. How can I do that ? Is it doable with Apache ? I need a rebound proxy to do ...
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Reverse Proxy browser not recognized/incompatible
I have reverse proxy setup(apache2) that points to a Cloud9 installation. The proxy is working correctly in that the Cloud9 Site comes up. But Cloud9 requires a specific browser version and states ...
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Apache reverse proxy, redirect requests based on IP addresses
I have a Linux box with 2 NICs. I installed and configured Apache 2 for reverse proxy.
Each NIC has its own IP address and I was wondering if there is any way to redirect the requests via Apache ...
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How to send authentication credentials to a published web site without prepending the AD domain name?
ISA Server 2006 publishing a web site; ISA does forms-based authentication against an Active Directory domain (which ISA itself is joined to), then, if the user is authorized, ISA sends the user's ...
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IIS - How to use appcmd to add cache control rules to ARR?
We are using IIS/ARR to act as a reverse proxy which is deployed on Windows Azure, as part of the role startup a CMD file runs which handles all of the configuration.
eg: %appcmd% set config ...
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Setting up reverse proxy for virtual machines on HostOS
I am currently installing a server that consists of a Virtualization Host (kvm on ubuntu) and 7 VM's, some running MySQL and LDAP, others running different webservers and webapplications. The VMs ...
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Is it possible to reverse proxy an image and not have it consume bandwidth on the proxy?
Say I have this URL to an image:
www.domain.com/image.jpg
And I want to have image.jpg actually be served from another server entirely (different machine and IP), at
static.domain.com/image.jpg
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