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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How to configure Pound proxy to pass requests to .well-known directory?
I use Pound proxy in front of Apache, so Pound listens to port 80 and Apache - to port 8888, and I am now trying to figure out how to configure Pound to pass requests to /home/username/public_html/.well-known for seamless Let's Encrypt generation…

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lighttpd behind pound gets "connection timed out" error when using browser other than Chrome
Please help me diagnose a problem.
I had a working website (WordPress) for the last 6 months working just fine. No updates or new installations have been made in the server.
Today users complain that the website hangs. I usually use Chrome and when…

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Pound, HAproxy and HAproxy logging
I'm trying to figure out one thing about HAproxy logging. Basically, we have Pound running in front of HAproxy on the same host doing SSL termination and then passing the requests to HAproxy. What I'm trying to figure out is how to log CLIENT's IP…

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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 the access_log, and pretty much all logs on the…

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Tomcat/JIRA redirects to HTTP when accessed by HTTPS through a Pound proxy
I'm trying to get a JIRA install to work behind a Pound proxy that is doing SSL termination/"acceleration". Unfortunately it seems that JIRA (Coyote) is redirecting to HTTPS when accessed:
C:\Users\Josh>openssl s_client -connect www:443
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GET…

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Ubuntu 12.04 - Pound Reverse Proxy and Adobe Flex/Flash Auth
First time posting,
I have a completely fresh install of ubuntu 12.04 Client as a reverse proxy gateway to our internal network. Our setup is we have one external ip but three domains we would like to point to various webservers on our internal…

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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
Port 1622
End
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pound: multiple domains
I've been using pound to run mydomain.dk. Now I've bought some other domains and SSL certificates that are mydomain.no, mydomain.se and mydomain.eu. My old config looked roughly like this:
ListenHTTPS
Address 81.19.246.120
Port …

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pound on debian buster
I had a debian jessie server, where I had pound managing https requests and forwarding them to varnish + apache. I upgraded the server to buster and everything was ok.
Now I'm migrating the server to a new one which is more powerful, and I'm…

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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 to https://www.example.com.
I have the following…

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Pound + Letsencrypt for Play Framework & AWS CloudFront
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I have an old Play Framework webapp that serves assets from two CDNs (siteassets and courseassets), which are implemented with AWS CloudFront. Pound runs on the same VM as the webapp, and merely acts as an SSL endpoint because the old…

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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, I'm trying with a regex in Redirect…

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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 Linux machine(s)) that aims to distribute HTTP…

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Pound, HTTPs and Varnish
I'm configuring a proxy, and trying to workout how to use a SSL Cert for Pound. Or whether its even needed?
At this stage the proxy simply points to the web server - we are likely to need more web servers in the near future, so need to workout how…

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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 2.6.32-573.3.1.el6.x86_64 #1 SMP Mon Aug 10…

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