Questions tagged [reverse-proxy]

A reverse proxy server usually refers to an HTTP accelerator or load-balancer which proxies requests on behalf of the actual clients to one or more backend HTTP servers.

A reverse proxy server usually refers to an proxy server which proxies requests on behalf of the actual clients to one or more backend HTTP servers.

It can be used as HTTP accelerator, or load-balancer, or to give the access to LAN internal web-services to Internet users.

Wikipedia: Reverse proxy

Apache HTTP as forward and reverse proxies

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Should I use IIS as a trusted proxy to provide ActiveDirectory SSO for a legacy app?

I'm trying to add Active Directory single-sign-on support to an existing SOAP server. Since it is written in C++ using third party transport components, adding AD SSO doesn't appear to be easy. Therefore I am thinking to require IIS as a trusted…
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How to point many paths to proxy server in nginx

I'm trying to set nginx location that will handle various paths and proxy them to my webapp. Here is my conf: server { listen 80; server_name www.example.org; #this works fine location / { proxy_set_header…
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How to remove referer from get request in Nginx reverse proxy?

Is it possible to remove the referer completely using Nginx reverse proxy configuration.
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HAPROXY reqirep on Host header not forwarding

I have a web server (actually it's a CF environment, but that doesn't matter much) running behind a haproxy version 1.5-dev19 2013/06/17 that accepts requests only for a certain internal domain, let's call it: internal-address. Meaning, that HTTP…
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Apache Reverse Proxy not working

I have a blog hosted on a remote server than our front end. I want to point our http://domain.com/blog into http://blog.domain.com which is where our current blog resides (the virtual host leads to a different machine). So:…
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Nginx Reverse Proxy 301 Redirects

I'm trying to set up an nginx proxy in a way I'm not sure will work... Basically, I have 3 servers running. Server A is an nginx reversed proxy. Server B and C are backend servers. When a client requests http://domain.com/file.jpg, it hits Server A…
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Logging on to two sites simultaneously

I want to log on to two sites simultaneously to enable a single sign on solution. We have a smallish wiki that is created with Apple wiki and we have an intranet site on a aspx cms system by Elcom. Both use Active Directory for…
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How do I prevent hotlining but allow google in nginx?

I want to setup a reverse proxy for serving images stored in S3. I dont want to allow access to images if referrer is not example.com But I want to allow multiple crawlers for example google bot, bing bot etc (based on user_agent) to access the…
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Nexus sonatype apache 2.4 proxy does not allow admin login

I have just setup nexus 2.8.1 and a reverse proxy via the following directives in an Apache 2.4 configuration. RequestHeader unset Authorization ProxyPreserveHost On ProxyPass http://nexushost.server:8082/nexus …
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Reverse Proxy with Heroku (for Wordpress) won't show full pages

I am trying to use a reverse proxy to serve a Wordpress blog running on EC2 at /blog from a rails app running on Heroku. I've used the rack-reverse-proxy gem and followed directions like this: How can I use a subdirectory instead of a…
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Sane approach for proxying to IIS and Vagrant in a Windows dev environment?

Given a local, multi-tenant dev environment (Win7 Ultimate) where host entries resolve to localhost and requests to multiple local hosts are made on :80 (etc), what's a sane way to proxy requests to either IIS (listening locally on an arbitrary…
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htaccess Map One Directory To Another One Level Up

So here’s what I’m trying to accomplish. I have this link: https://www.mydomain.com/foo/bar/ Now, the directory "foo" actually has a site in it that is up and operational. For the sake of organization I have had to create another site like…
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When should same policies be added under both vcl_recv and vcl_fetch?

Let me explain with an example: File: /etc/varnish/default.vcl # [...] sub vcl_recv { # [...] if (req.request != "GET" && req.request != "HEAD") { return (pass); } if (req.http.Authorization || req.http.Authenticate) { …
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Proxy / ServiceBus / Reverse SSH

Trying to figure out the best way to easily connect a bunch of client machines running WCF service to a LAMP server on a wide area network.... Currently just set up set up each client with DynDNS, and port forwarding at the router... Absolutely not…
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How to make your Plone site accessible via IIS

Having recently spent a little while working this out I thought I would share it in case someone else found it useful. Here is the set up, you have yourself a Plone site set up (I've used 3.3, 4.0 and 4.3) in a windows environment (in my case…
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