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The Pound program is a reverse proxy, load balancer and HTTPS front-end for Web server(s). Pound was developed to enable distributing the load among several Web-servers and to allow for a convenient SSL wrapper for those Web servers that do not offer it natively.

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Pound sticky sessions between HTTP and HTTPS

I have pound setup for http and https, and have sticky sessions based on cookie for both. However, sessions are not sticky when jumping from http to https. Is there anyway to do this in Pound? It's ...
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OpenSSL SHA256 testing

I'm having an issue testing a hardened SSL configuration for pound. One of the requirements is for the inclusion of AES[128|256]-SHA256 ciphers, along with strict ordering of preference. I've ...
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Varnish + Pound on Apache 503 Errors

I'm getting a lot of seemingly random 503 Service Unavailable errors on my Varnish + Pound setup on Apache. I have no idea where to start or what the problem is. I've searched the web a ton and all ...
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Pound Ubuntu 12.04.1 - Private IP in apache logs. Should be Client's external IP. Help?

Have installed apsis Pound on Ubuntu Desktop 12.04.1. I am forwarding HTTP requests to an XServe (Snow Leopard Server) Apache instance, my problem is that I am getting local private IP addresses in ...
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pound not proxying request

I configured pound like this: ListenHTTP Address 192.168.21.10 Port 1632 Service BackEnd Address 192.168.22.220 ...
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Ubuntu + Pound 3.0 (load balancer) errors when on port 80

When I start up pound with service it does not log the error in syslog but when I start it with 'pound -d 3' 7F1384113640 thr_http start /build/pound-lNcD5I/pound-3.0/src/http.c:535 7F1384113640 start ...
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Redirect all requests to https://www version with Pound proxy

I am trying to configure Pound proxy configuration file to redirect all requests to a website over http to https://www.example.com. Also I need requests coming to https://example.com to be redirected ...
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Pound: redirect http to https for wildcard subdomains

I have a server (debian jessie) managing multiple domains with varnish and apache, and I want to use pound in order to redirect http traffic to https. Since the HeadRequire directive permits a regex, ...
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Using pound to balance servers of different capacity

Supposing I have three backend Linux servers, A, B, C, where C is about twice as powerful (mainly in CPU terms) as the others, is it possible to set up a Pound frontend configuration (also dedicated ...
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SSL_CTX_use_PrivateKey_file failed - aborted

I'm trying to update few of existing SSL certificates with updated expiration on following system: # cat /etc/redhat-release Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6.7 (Santiago) # uname -a Linux X ...
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Allow HTTPS only for specific domains with pound

quick question here: I have trafic from several domains routed to a Pound Reverse Proxy. I have a valid certificate for one of these domain that I want accessible over HTTPS (this part I managed to ...
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Hot-spare using Pound

I currently have a server deployment in which Pound is being used as a reverse proxy (HTTPS -> HTTP) in front of a single server instance. I'd like to add a second instance on a different host that ...
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Shibboleth + IIS and Pound Reverse Proxy

Having a bit of a problem getting Shibboleth (SSO) working with ADFS and Pound. The main problem seems to be that: The website address will be https://website.domain.com Pound will then terminate ...
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how to pass domain name to backend with pound

I am using pound as a way to decode SSL for the backend, but the bulk of the work is done on varnish (including virtualhost stuff). As a result, I need pound to just forward all other traffic to ...
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Equivalent for HAProxy's option forwardfor/close in Pound

I'm switching from HAProxy to Pound and I need to know if there is an equivalent of option forwardfor option httpclose in Pound. BTW, I'm already using the HeadRemove "X-Forwarded-For" in Pound. ...
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Tomcat 6 behind Pound reverse proxy

I'm trying to run Tomcat as standalone web server behind Pound. Pound is already used to terminate SSL connections for some other machines and so I'd thought it would also do it for the Tomcat server ...
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