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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 addresses.

A reverse proxy is a type of 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 proxy can be used in cases when there is an advantage to not exposing the server with the content directly to the Internet, whether it be for security reasons or because of a lack of available public IP addresses.

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Apache Reverse Proxy Serving Wrong Content

I have an Apache Proxy setup in front of an HTTP daemon process that serves a Sinatra web application with the following Directives (which work great) ProxyPass / http://ip-ad-dr-ess:8080/ ProxyPassReverse / http://ip-ad-dr-ess:8080/ This allows me…
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Nexus functionality is limited after installation

I have a CentOS based server with Sonatype Nexus 2.0.4-1 installed. The issue is that there are no standard "Artifact Search", "Advanced Search", "Browse Index", "Refresh Index" Nexus features, as well as Artifact Information tab after selection of…
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apache2 reverse proxy 2 virtual hosts & ssl

I have 2 servers: app1.example.biz & app2.example.biz I need to do the following using apache2 as a reverse proxy redirect all traffic coming from internet to the appropriate server & use ssl. The configuration i did allows me to redirect…
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REST proxy for IIS

I am looking for a REST Proxy to run on IIS so that an https GET/POST/DELETE etc can be forwarded "as-is" to another REST server for fulfilment, and to return the results as-is also. I've done a search, but cannot find anything other than people…
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Zimbra 7.2 reverse proxy to arbitrary internal website?

I have ZCS 7.2 opensource installed at webmail.domain.com and mailman on mailman.domain.com/mailman. I wanted to setup a proxy so that when someone goes to webmail.domain.com/mailman, the proxy would instead pull up the contents of…
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nginx is not compressing response by default when acting as a reverse proxy

I have nginx sitting on port 80, redirecting requests to a play framework server as described by deployment docs. I have verified that the server by default does not compress by doing the steps provided by zoul in this question. However as in the…
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File-based reverse proxy cache with lru gc?

For a project I'm working on I need a file-based reverse proxy cache where I limit the size of the cache to some setting and have the ability to "gc" the cache based most likely on a lru algorithm. I'm not seeing anything like this with Apache,…
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Error message when trying to start varnish on centos 5.5

I just installed and configured Varnish to work on port 80, and Apache to work on port 8080. I am trying to start Varnish with the command service varnish start, but it gave me this error: varnishd dead but pid file exists I edited this…
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IIS 7 ARR Reverse Proxy Over https

I have a very simple reverse proxy setup in IIS7 using ARR and rewrite module that takes all traffic on an IP and routes it to a different IP running on a different server. …
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Rewrite cookies for ISA: add Secure

We've developed a web application. One of our customers decided to run it over HTTP internally and use an ISA server to function as a reverse proxy. The access to the ISA server from the outside world is HTTPS. I want to modify all the cookies that…
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Apache + Tomcat: Which one should handle SSL? IP-based proxy forwarding?

We currently have a Tomcat application running with SSL on port 443. Right now we have an apache server that accepts http requests on port 80 and redirects to the Tomcat instance: ServerName domain.com ServerAlias…
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Route multiple subdomains on one external ip to multiple internal ips

i have several subdomains(git.example.org, build.example.org, etc.), i have a router with an external ip and i have several virtual machines on a host computer with internal ips. Now i want to route git.example.org to internal ip 10.0.2.1 and…
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reverse proxy not rewriting to https

I need your help. I'm having problems with reverse proxy rewriting to https: I have an alfresco app running on top of tomcat and as a front and an Apache server - it's site-enabled looks like that: ServerName alfresco …
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Reverse Proxy on Virtual Directory in IIS7

I am running a WHS 2011 and try to proxy an internal webserver (subsonic) over IIS7. The goal is: https://external_host/subsonic -> http://internal_host:4040 What I've done so far: Created a Virtual Directory "subsonic" in the Default Web Site List…
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Varnish doesn't work with Apache Virtualhosts

I've setup Varnish as a reverse proxy on port 80 before Apache 2.2.22 + VirtualHosts on port 81. When I enter my websites from port 81 it's all ok, then when I try to enter from port 80 I got Apache2 Test Page. I'm running only one backend (all on…
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