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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How does Varnish 3.0 deal with gzip?

Varnish will hold compressed obj in Cache, but when client don't support gzip. How does Varnish deal with it? Does it hold the other uncompressed obj in Cache too, or decompress the compressed obj?
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IIRF How to redirect CRUD requests

I'm trying to make IIRF redirect POST UPDATE DELETE requests, not only GET one. Here is the config RedirectRule ^/web1$ /web2/ [I] ProxyPass ^/web1/(.*)$ http://another.example.com:25000/web2/$1 ProxyPassReverse /web1…
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Proxy all subdomains of one domain to another, using Apache

I am trying to build a reverse proxy using Apache. My goal is to proxy all requests of the form .domain.com/file.html to www.domain.com//file.html. I somehow need to capture the of the original URL and use it to…
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IIS reverse-proxy not sending full response body

I have an IIS reverse-proxy delivering an application with a RoR 3 backend. The application displays information from our databases over a period of time chosen, giving you various charts and graphs. When not run through the reverse-proxy,…
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Nginx mapping for static files and reverse proxy

I am trying, without luck (getting 404s), to get nginx to serve static files for requests under a certain subdirectory, while all other requests are reversed-proxied. For example, I want requests to http://example.com/project/static/index.html, and…
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Templating+scripting reverse proxy?

Thinking through an idea, wanted to get feedback/suggestions: Having had great success with url rewriting and nginx, I'm now thinking of a more capable reverse proxy/router that would do the following: Map requests to handlers based on regex…
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Make lighttpd (lighty) proxy forward HTTPS requests based on Server Name Indication and without returning an SSL cert

I am currently using lighty as a load-balancing reverse-proxy for two different webapps running on a small farm of HTTP servers: roundrobbin(URL_1) => Server_Group_1 roundrobbin(URL_2) => Server_Group_2 I want to convert the HTTP servers to HTTPS…
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Apache2 Reverse Proxy, why does my solution never match the example?

I need to make a reverse proxy back to a tomcat server running a grails application. I have always seen reverse proxy examples like this: ProxyRequests Off ProxyPass / http://localhost:8080/appname/ ProxyPassReverse /…
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ASP.NET Response.Redirect URL parameter through ReverseProxy

We have a web-based application that uses Response.Redirect e.g. Response.Redirect("http://app_domain.com/userhome.aspx") to redirect the web-browser to an appropriate home page right after form-based authentication. This works fine when the…
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Designing real-time web application (Node.js and socket.io)

I want to ask about some good practices. I have a Node.js (Express) web server and socket.io push server (in case technology matters). I can turn both of them into one application but I want them separated (they can communicate with each other if…
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Grails redirect with reverse proxy

We've developed a Grails application that uses redirects. Beacuse of external reasons, we are just recently using reverse-proxy, to split some traffic to domains: From: demo1.company.local (the server itself) To: tomcat.company.local (for all java…
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WebSphere Portal behind reverse proxy and getServerPort()

I have problems accessing WebSphere Portal which is deployed behind reverse proxy (using Apache). The problem is that while inspecting HTTP requests issued by browser, some requests are targeted at proxy, and some directly at WebSphere Portal. My…
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Can I set in the IIS ARR (reverse-proxy) cache for dynamic pages?

It's only caching my static pages right now.
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proxy http request with node

I have a nodeJs front end on one domain and a rest back end server on another domain. I would like to be able to perform ajax requests from the front to the back. So, i intend to use a reverse proxy for that, in order to bypass the same origin…
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apache reverse proxy: how to forward proxy server's HTTP_HOST

Our local development setup requires a box in the DMZ, and each developer has a line in its apache config for proxying. Looks something like: ProxyPreserveHost on ProxyPass /user1/ {user1's IP} ProxyPassReverse /user1/ {user1's IP} ProxyPass…
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