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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Back-Connect Server and SMTP Troubles

I don't understand whats the problem on this type of error. I have a Back-Connect Servers (type Socks4/5 or HTTP). I use a server to connect to one of the remote PC. For that I open a TCP-Connection to one of this Server (serverip:randport). //…
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Server caching IIS6

Is it possible to use Server Caching on Windows IIS6? I know it is a feature of IIS7, but is there a way to use server caching on IIS6? Maybe there is some additional software? I would like to use server cache for pages that need a lot of SQL…
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using my oauth provider behind a reverse proxy

I try to use my OAuth provider developed with Jersey behind a apache reverse-proxy the client uses POST https://api.com/resource/oauth/request-token my oauth provider receives POST http://api.com/mywebservice/resource/oauth/request-token the…
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IIS 7 URL Rewrite or Reverse Proxy to Handle Firewall Security

I am setting up different web applications on a Win 2008 R2 server. I am trying to accomplish the following: http://myserver/ should point to a local folder with static html pages http://myserver/crm should "rewrite" to http://myserver:1234/ where…
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Apache as a reverse and caching proxy for Tomcat

I have a Java image resizing app which resides in a Tomcat container. I would like to use Apache as a frontend Reverse-Proxy to the Tomcat machine which also caches the image requests. I do not want to load hundreds of image requests over and over,…
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Apache Config to send sub dirs to different servers - mod_proxy

We use Apache as a reverse proxy server. This has been working well, but I now need to have http://domain.com/sub1 proxy to serverA and http://domain.com/sub2 proxy to serverB. Is this possible? If so, what is the config for it? Here is my…
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basics of a reverse proxy? what am I missing?

I am no server admin, just a web developer trying to act as such. :) We have website A and website B. Website A has a subdomain called subby.websitea.com, which connects via A name to ANOTHER server. I was told that in order to make…
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Intermittent 502 proxy error to Zope / Plone “error reading status line from remote server”

We're currently running Plone 3.3.6 on one instance of Zope with 4 threads behind Apache 2.2. We have a number of subsites all managed from one Plone site. I'm currently testing a new set-up running 2 Zope instances, 2 threads each, and load…
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Using IIS ARR to route SOAP requests

The situation is that we have some SOAP (asmx) services that are version dependent upon a 3rd party software. These services reside on domainA. We are in the process of migrating to a new version of the 3rd party software where the existing SOAP…
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Issue doing reverse proxy using apache with subdomain

I am trying to do a mod_proxy implementation of a sintra application using a subdirectory uri on the proxy host. Here is my apache proxy config area: ProxyRequests Off ProxyPass /api/ http://127.0.0.1:9292/ ProxyPassReverse /api/…
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how to set java web application's context root when working with reverse proxy

My old way using mod_jk in apache and configure virtual host in tomcat In the JSP file, I refer to CSS as below /<%=request.getContextPath()%>/css/styles.css while the home link is set to /<%=request.getContextPath()%>/ so this worked fine when…
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Proxys for WebDAV

I'd like to set up a reverse proxy for my webdav server. The main reason for this is so that I can better control which files are being uploaded to the webdav server. I cannot do this at the webdav server itself, it's a service by alfresco and I…
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Where should restricting IP address be handled?

We run a reverse proxy in front of our application tier and I'm wondering where the "best practice" place for handling the IP restriction is. Currently, we use the application security to restrict access to specific resources by IP address but this…
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Customizing apache nginx backend errorlog to include x-forwarded-for / x-real-ip? How?

We run your default apache behind nginx setup. This means that as far as the ip that shows up in the apache error logs is the nginx lan ip (eg: 192.168.0.X). This means that the standard error log looks as follow (for a 404 error for example): [Thu…
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Multiple ProxyPassReverse for a Virtual Host with identical URLs

We have a situation where we have one JBoss application that is being proxied by two Apache paths as a Virtual Host below: ServerName localhost1 ProxyPass /abba/ http://localhost:8080/app/ ProxyPass /babba/…