Server Fault Stack Exchange
Server Fault Stack Exchange

Questions tagged [proxy]

Device or program that stands between two or more interconnected programs/devices

3307 questions
6
votes
6 answers

Simulate company proxy for users that take laptops home

My company uses an HTTP Proxy, so I had to configure several config-files of my tools to access the internet via the the Proxy. When users are at home, they won't be able to use that proxy (except when they use the VPN connection). Is it possible…
Henrik P. Hessel
  • 400
  • 3
  • 18
6
votes
2 answers

rpm -Uvh authenticated proxy access ... just hangs?

I'm not sure how to set up authenticated proxy access with rpm. But I have it set up with wget and yum. When I run rpm -Uvh http://dl.fedoraproject.org/etc... It just says 'Retrieving http://...' and I have no idea what's going on. Any help?
AlxVallejo
  • 1,086
  • 4
  • 11
  • 19
6
votes
2 answers

How do you get AWS VPC EC2 instances to be able to see the AWS APIs?

We're spinning up infrastructure inside of an AWS VPC via CloudFormation. We're using auto-scaling groups to bring up VPC-EC2 instances (so, we don't bring up instances directly; ASGs manage that). Inside of a PVC, EC2 instances only have a private…
Peter Mounce
  • 1,253
  • 5
  • 16
  • 29
6
votes
2 answers

Using Apache as a reverse proxy HTTPS server in front of Remote Desktop Gateway server

I have a small server running several virtual machines, some web servers and also a windows 2008 R2 Remote Desktop Gateway server. The intention is to have an Apache2 server running on Ubuntu 11.10 which will act as a reverse proxy server to forward…
Alex
  • 261
  • 1
  • 3
  • 8
6
votes
3 answers

Event ID 16: Windows Update Client ignoring proxy settings

Have a couple of locked down, standalone Windows 2008 R2 servers (not on a domain; no WSUS) that refuse to adhere to the proxy settings each morning at around 4:25AM EST with what I'm assuming is a probe to check for updates: Unable to Connect:…
gravyface
  • 13,957
  • 19
  • 68
  • 100
6
votes
1 answer

nginx regex characters that require quoting?

So I was configuring nginx today and I hit a weird problem. I was trying to match a location like this: location ~ ^/([0-9]+)/(.*) { # do proxy redirects } ...for URLs like "http://my.domain.com/0001/index.html". This rule was never matching,…
Michael Louis Thaler
  • 206
  • 2
  • 7
6
votes
2 answers

Does it make sense to reverse proxy Node.js through Apache?

Perfomancewise, does it make sense to redirect requests from an Apache VirtualHost to a Node.js instance? Does proxying counterbalance the awesome Node.js performance? FYI: I also need a couple of PHP web apps to be parsed and run on the same…
Daniel
  • 215
  • 3
  • 7
6
votes
1 answer

Encrypt client connection with squid forward proxy using SSL

I'm setting up a Squid forward proxy and I'm wondering if I could configure Squid in such a way that the connection from my web browser to squid is https regardless of whether the connection from squid to the destination website is http or https. In…
Twisted Whisper
  • 193
  • 1
  • 6
6
votes
1 answer

Squid 3 reloading makes it stop serving requests

So, we use Squid 3 here (3.0.STABLE8-3+lenny4), pretty standard configuration (no dansguardian or similar) + NTLM authentication with LDAP background, circa 1000 users on a busy day, and our acls reference some external files (allowed/blocked…
coredump
  • 12,713
  • 2
  • 36
  • 56
6
votes
4 answers

Apache RewriteRule for proxying

I have a web application installed (ClockingIT) that acts based on the used subdomain. As we want to use SSL and do not have a wildcard certificate, this is not very convenient for us :-) So I thought about using Apache's mod_proxy and mod_rewrite…
Daniel
6
votes
1 answer

Adding security to privoxy

I have this little proxy that i run with privoxy on my server, basically to take advantage of my server's static IP to connect to my office's VPN. I'm using it on a, let's say, uncommon port without authentication, an open proxy. As my SysAdmin…
Rod
  • 371
  • 4
  • 10
6
votes
4 answers

Good open source proxy server software for windows server?

Looking for good open source proxy server software. Preferably for a Windows server based machine. Need it primarily for testing my applications connectivity in a proxy scenario. So something that is dead easy to setup and configure. The proxy will…
JL.
  • 1,283
  • 10
  • 22
  • 35
6
votes
5 answers

Identical traffic

I am running an application server and logging all requests for analysis purposes later. One interesting trend I noticed last night was, I had a visitor from Texas on FIOS share identical traffic with bluecoat in California. What would cause the…
Walter White
6
votes
4 answers

ssh port forwarding freezes after 10 simultaneous connections

I am using port forwarding to utilize proxy server which is on remote machine. Remote machine hostname is remotemachine. Proxy is listening on 8118 port. I am translating this port to local port 5223. ssh -vvv -N remotemachine -L…
Marko Kevac
  • 255
  • 1
  • 3
  • 6
6
votes
2 answers

HTTP compression in IIS 6.0 causing problems with certain users

We're getting a few sporadic customer calls (less than 0.1% of our users) complaining of not being able to access my company's website - either they get a blank page (if they use IE), or a "Content Encoding Error" that says the page uses an invalid…
gharper
  • 5,425
  • 4
  • 29
  • 35
1 2 3
…
99 100