URL Rewrite Module for IIS 7
Does anyone have experience using the URL Rewrite Module (see here)? Can it be used to do reverse proxy? ...
reverse-proxy
DNS- Route DNS for subfolder to different server?
LEt's say I want to have a subfolder called- http://www.foo.com/news/ but I actually want that news folder on a different server. I realize it can be done easily with subdomains, but I was really hoping for the subfolder thing. Is it possible? How? ...
Downloading document from internal server externally
This a bit of strange one.... We have an internal web app that runs on server (A) and a document repository that runs on server (B). I have simple link on a page and I want to enable the user to download a document(From IIS Server (A)). However this document does not exist on Server (A) until the user clicks the button(because there is...
Apache - Reverse Proxy and HTTP 302 status messsage
My team is trying to setup an Apache reverse proxy from a customer's site into one of our web applications. http://www.example.com/app1/some-path maps to http://internal1.example.com/some-path Inside our application we use struts and have redirect = true set on certain actions in order to provide certain functionality. The 302 status...
Alternative Reverse Proxy Architecture Directions
Currently, I've got an expensive license for a reverse proxy server in an environment that is mostly Tomcat. I'm thinking of one or both of the following upgrades. Using Squid instead of the expensive licensed product. Using some Apache2 settings for caching. Right now, I'm vague on the details, but perhaps mod_proxy will work here? ...
Active Reverse Proxy
Does anyone know of any reverse proxy solutions that allow the content/data of an HTTP response to be directly modified before being relayed to the requesting client? As an example: Proxy relays client request for pdf document to another server, response received by proxy, watermark added to pages of pdf, watermarked pdf is returned to...
Reverse proxy
How does reverse proxy server work? Is it used to secure the main server? Is it used as a firewall? What are the reasons for using a proxy server? Could someone give a real world example? ...
Difference between proxy server and reverse proxy server
What is the difference between proxy server and reverse proxy server? ...
How to use varnish/squid with IIS/ASP.NET website?
I am working on a website with lots of images (think smugmug/flickr) and from what I read, flickr is using squid as the image cache. My images will be stored on Amazon S3, so a caching server will help saving the hosting money as well. I'd like to hear ideas on it is do-able with the following configuration. My ASP.NET/MVC application...
Apache Whitelist reverse proxy
We have a reverse proxy here, running Apache in version 2.2.x Essentially I want to create a whitelist so that only valid URLs will go through the proxy and be processed by the web server. How do you do this in the Apache config file, or do you need to use SQUID? ...
WCF Webservice behind public reverse proxy
How can I correctly serve WSDL of a WCF webservice located in a private LAN from behind a reverse proxy listening on public IP? I have an Apache webserver configured in reverse proxy mode which listens for requests on a public IP address and serves them from the internal IIS host. WCF webservice generates WSDL using the FQDN address of ...
Apache reverse proxy set up SSL certificate
We need to set up a secure certificate on an Apache reverse proxy. We've been advised that we need to use a virtual host directive. I've looked these up in the O'Reilly book bit can't find any examples that pick up https specifically. Does anyone have any examples of config snippets to do this? ...
Post processing of reverse proxied HTTP requests? (like Akamai's ESI)
We run a relatively high volume content site. Like most content sites, the majority of each page is relatively static. The articles rarely change, making them good candidates for some form of static/edge caching. There are two big problems, though. Secondary page elements (nav, recent content lists, etc) change pretty frequently, qui...
How do I setup TeamCity for public access over https?
How do I setup TeamCity 4.0 so that I can access it over port 443 on the internet? e.g. https://teamcity.mydomain.com I am running IIS 7 on the same server that TeamCity is installed. I see two options: Setup TeamCity to use port 8443 and create a reverse proxy in IIS that routes requests to the TeamCity public IP address to the Tom...
Can Flash Remoting run through a http (Squid) proxy server
I have a network were would like like to deliver data using the Flash Remoting data format over http. We have Squid working as a reverse proxy/accelerator, are there any known problems running this traffic through Squid. We would configure that particular URL to not be cached. Mike. ...
What's a good caching reverse proxy which can serve stale content if the underlying application becomes unavailable?
I'm looking for a caching reverse proxy (something like squid or varnish) with good support for serving stale content in the event of failure - in other words, if the application I'm proxying goes away or starts serving internal server errors I'd like the cache to continue to serve the last good response saved from the back end. Essentia...
Caching a PHP script for the rest of the day
How can I make a PHP script cache-friendly to our private reverse proxy (Squid)? I would like it to stay cached for the rest of the day. In other words, the page's last modification is 00:00 today and it will expire at 00:00 tomorrow. What are the minimum required HTTP headers to do this reliably? EDIT: I do not want the client's bro...
Apache Reverse Proxy With SSL
Is it possbile to reverse proxy to internal server via HTTPS and serve the certificate from the backend server instead of the certificate on the proxy? ...
Apache2 Reverse Proxy to an end-point that requires BasicAuth but want to hide this from user
Basically my scenario is that I have an internal website that requires a SINGLE hard-coded username and password to access (and this can't be turned off, only changed). I am exposing this website through a reverse proxy for various reasons (hiding the port, simplifying url, simplifying NAT, etc). However, what I would like to do is be ...
How to setup a Squid Reverse Proxy?
I have a website (windows IIS) that is very busy and I wanted to setup an SQUID Reverse proxy to offload some of the traffic. I wanted to know what are the best practices, and how to setup it up on a Windows or Unix server. ...