A reverse proxy is a type of proxy server that fetches resources from a specific defined set of servers for a client. It is used in cases when there is an advantage to not exposing the web server with the content directly whether it be for security reasons or because of a lack of available public IP ...
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proxy to SSL third party site and masquerade url
To improve search engine optimization I need to have my SSL-enabled site https://www.company.com/support proxy to our SSL enabled third party support site https://company.custhelp.com, while at the ...
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Setup trac 1.0.1 with nginx reverse proxy
I'm trying to setup trac 1.0.1 behind an nginx reverse proxy. Trac is listening on port 8000 internally, and nginx should listen to port 80 on < ipadress >/trac.
I managed to setup nginx such that ...
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Proxying while preserving URI with mod_security2
I'm using a proxy: action in mod_security2. I'd like to preserve the full URL of the original request, however, and it seems to be rewriting that to the url in my proxy: action.
So a request to ...
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Apache reverse proxy before redirect
I'm trying to setup a redirect to https on a specific ServerName but before it does the redirect I'd like it to match a Location path and reverse proxy to a separate server rather than redirect to the ...
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IIS sets http header Expires to -1, how do I override this with mod_expires
I'm using an IIS website with a Apache HTTP reverse proxy (mod_proxy with ProxyRequests Off).
I want to control the expires headers in apache (don't ask), but IIS is setting the header Expires: -1.
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Ubuntu Pound Reverse Proxy Load Balancing Based off active server load?
I have Pound installed on a loadbalancer. It seems to work okay, except that it randomly assigns the backend server to forward the request to. I've put 1 backend machine under so much load that it ...
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Apache as reverse proxy more resources
I'm moving a big directory of images from an HTTP server to another and I cannot change any configuration.
I would like my user don't even suppose that a moving in progress. So I thought to add an ...
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Offline reverse-proxy with Nginx
I'm using a Nginx reverse proxy to access content on an online drupal server.
The fact is, if Nginx loses his internet connection, when i'm trying to call the server through the reverse proxy, I ...
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Using IIS7 as a reverse proxy
My question is pretty much identical to the question listed but they did not get an answer as they ended up using Linux as the reverse proxy.
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What are the security implications of STARTING a reverse proxied origin server as an unprivileged user?
A common recommendation as part of web server security is to run the server daemon as an unprivileged user (e.g.: nobody) so that exploits executing arbitrary code may have less unwanted effects. ...
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apache2 mod_proxy without 301 moved permanently?
Is it possible to not send a 301 moved permanently response to the client when using mod_proxy? I would like the client to deal with the reverse proxy as opaquely as possible.
My Virtual Host ...
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Problems setting a cookie from a machine proxied by nginx
For a project of mine, I need to wire up a long chain of machines that are essentially proxying the HTTP requests for each other. It goes like this:
Web client - A - B/C - D
When a request is made ...
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Apache reverse proxy converts links in page to https
I have set up a reverse proxy and on the resulting page the http links show as https, so they cannot be loaded as this is a pure http page.
Could this be caused by a bad reverse proxy configuration?
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Squid proxy refusing to revalidate cache when Vary header present
squid.conf
cache_effective_user squid
http_access allow all
# Squid normally listens to port 3128
http_port 3128 accel defaultsite=localhost no-vhost ignore-cc
cache_peer localhost parent 80 0 ...
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Internal server error trying to overwrite response host name using ARR IIS module
I have atlassian jira version 5 bug tracker server in my private network with domain name bt01.private.com. I want to publish this server to internet using application request routing iis module. I ...
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Apache2 mod_proxy modifies content-type for some reason
I am using a local proxy using apache2 to do some development work (OSX 10.8):
SSLProxyEngine on
ProxyPass /app https://my.server.org/app
ProxyPass /web https://my.server.org/web
Everything works ...
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VCL - configuration for Magento and Varnish 3.0.2
I would like to kindly ask if there's someone who can help me configure Varnish for Magento
to reach far more hits. My current ratio from varnishstat is:
cache_hit=271
cache_miss=926
I'm kindly ...
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Apache as a Reverse Proxy Exposes internal server strings
I'm using Apache mod_proxy as a reverse proxy to internal servers, with mod_security to rename the apache server string to something different, however the server string of the internal servers get ...
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Nginx as reverse proxy: how to properly configure gateway timeout?
We have configured Nginx as a reverse proxy to an Apache server farm, but I'm running into trouble with the gateway timeouts.
Our Goal in human readable form is: "Deliver a request within one second, ...
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HAProxy: Display a “BADREQ” | BADREQ's by the thousands
My HAProxy Configuration.
#HA-Proxy version 1.3.22 2009/10/14 Copyright 2000-2009 Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
global
maxconn 10000
spread-checks 50
user haproxy
group haproxy
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Proxy pass NGINX to NodeJS via UNIX socket instead of ip+port
I'm wondering if proxy_pass-ing NGINX to NodeJS via UNIX sockets is possible.
I know that I can start up a nodejs application and start listening on a random port on 127.0.0.1 and then proxy_pass ...
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Reverse Proxy (mod_rewrite) and Rails (absolute paths)
I have front end rails app, that reverse proxies to any of a number of backend rails apps depending on URL, for example
http://www.my_host.com/app_one reverse proxies to ...
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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 Reverse Proxy Node.js and Wordpress + Static Files Issue
I have had quite a time trying to get nginx to serve static assets from my wordpress blog. Have a look at the config and let me know if you can help. ( https://gist.github.com/1130332 - to see the ...
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Apache reverse proxy access control
I have an Apache reverse proxy that is currently reverse proxying for a few sites.
However i am now going to be adding a new site (lets call it newsite.com) that should only be accessible by certain ...
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Permanent Redirect on Apache is not working
I have an Apache 2.4 server on Windows 2008 that has been working great as a reverse proxy. It is serving content from a LifeRay 6.0 installation running on Glassfish 3.0. Originally, when we ...
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Setup Apache2 SSL as a Reverse Proxy
I have a web application that handles potentially sensitive information that needs to be exposed more publicly. Unfortunately it has it's own proprietary webserver built in that doesn't support SSL. ...
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Nginx subdomain proxypass
I want to redirect non-ssl traffic to ssl for all subdomains. I want to keep the subdomain the same. I want to specify a different proxy_pass for staging.foo.com. I only have 3 things going right now ...
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Stunnel + Varnish + Apache questions
I am currently running Varnish in front of apache for all http traffic. I added stunnel so as to take advantage of the cache for https connections as well. So, for https, stunnel talks to varnish ...
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how to improve nginx reverse proxy performance?
I am pretty much a noobie at nginx and i really need some help.
I am using nginx as a reverse proxy server to serve primarily as a load balancer. I am using almost only dynamic files. The back end ...
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Reverse proxy with SSL and IP passthrough?
Turns out that the IP of a much-needed new website is blocked from inside our organization's network for reasons that will take weeks to fix. In the meantime, could we set up a reverse proxy on an ...
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Nginx Proxy not working due to expiration rule
I have setup nginx proxying and it only works if the second location block (the one that catches the static content) is missing from the config.
location /about {
rewrite /about/(.*) /$1 break;
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BlueCoat reverse proxy NTLM authentication
Currently when we want to access an internal site from Internet (IIS with NTLM auth), we have two login screens that appear :
step1 : LDAPAuth, from the BlueCoat that check login/password validity ...
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Nginx reverse proxying Drupal content served with Apache
I'm new to Nginx but was interested in trying it out.
I now have Nginx listening to port 80 and serving static html content from /srv/www for a main "promo site". I've also set up apache2 to the ...
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Configure nginx to forward external port to same internal port
I'm running TileMill, which is listening to port 20008 and 20009, from localhost. I want 20009 to be only accessed through nginx on port 80 (with simple auth). I want 20008 to be accessible "directly" ...
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Apache reverse proxy from one virtual host to two Tomcats
Does anyone have some tips or an example for how to configure this sort of reverse proxy arrangement on Apache Http Server 2.2? I support a Java web application that we develop in multiple ...
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How should I use a proxy server to access the internet - with custom Python plugins for request processing? [closed]
We're trying to understand how to set up a proxy server for our Web application. We need several processes to access the Internet through a proxy server in the internal network. Ideally, we could ...
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Apache mod_rewrite reverse proxy drop requests
I'm using Apache 2.2.3 as a front end for my application. I use mod_rewrite to reverse-proxy a path to a backend server. That works wonderfully, most of the time. But sometimes the requests are not ...
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Cross domain javascript form filling, reverse proxy
I need a javascript form filler that can bypass the 'same origin policy' most modern browsers implement.
I made a script that opens the desired website/form in a new browser. With the handler, ...
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caching images with apache reverse proxy
I'm trying to set up an apache2 reverse proxy to cache images. (Apache, not nginx required)
There appear to be headers being cached, but not images,css etc.
My config:
CacheEnable disk /
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Apache Tomcat 7 + Nginx - IsTomcat Native needed?
this is my 1st question.
If i make mistake, simply point it out & i'll improve it next time.
I'm a Java Dev & new to Linux.
I deploy my Spring MVC app on a VPS with Tomcat 7 and use nginx as ...
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Deploying play! 2.0 application on an apache server with a reverse proxy
I'm trying to deploy my play! 2.0 application on an Ubuntu 11.10 server and I have been running into error after error and hope someone can help me here. I am try to deploy my Play! application using ...
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Apache reverse proxy causing ~40 second delay on first access after idle
I have a simple Apache 2.2 reverse proxy setup on OSX with three virtual hosts all providing SSL and Open Directory authentication before forwarding everything to their respective back end servers.
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Squid as fully transparent reverse proxy
I have got a few web servers running on my server and I want all of them to be accessible via port 80. I set up squid as a reverse proxy and it works fine. I, however, need the source ip address to be ...
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Which reverse-proxies support HTTP/1.1 ETag and If-None-Match headers?
I'm developing a caching system for an ecommerce platform that will use a reverse proxy for caching. I plan to handle invalidation by using proper HTTP/1.1 headers. That is, I will set an ETag on ...
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Good way to reverse proxy through a forward proxy
I have an app that uses HTTP to connect to a server but does not support using an HTTP proxy and I must use an HTTP proxy to get to the server.
I would like to set up a reverse proxy service (it's on ...
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Access internally hosted IIS with Windows authentication from Internet
I have .NET web application running on IIS behind the firewall.
Application is using Windows authentication (NTLM) to authenticate users.
I need to make this application accessible from Internet so ...
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suggestions for tools to use proxy / reverse proxy setup [closed]
I am looking for some suggestions as to what tools / setup I would need for a reverse proxy configuration.
First off, this is what I am trying to achieve.
I want people to access www.example.com ...
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How to configure apache as a reverse proxy with the remote server specified in a query string parameter
Problem:
I'm trying to configure apache as a reverse proxy where the remove server is specified in a query string parameter.
Let's say I'm serving a site at mywebapp.com. If you navigated to ...
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Apache proxy for CAS SSO - configuration example
I need to use an Apache (or other) proxy to enable SSO on a platform which does not natively support CAS (namely splunk)
It looks like everyone on Internet has "successfully configured their Apache ...
