Questions tagged [reverse-proxy]
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Cloudflare plus Nginx plus Tomcat - is Nginx redundant?
With my past project, I have Nginx serving static files as well as being a reverse proxy for Tomcat (backend written in Java). There was no Cloudflare or other CDN.
With my current project, I have ...
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Reverse Proxy with Management Api [closed]
Does anyone know a reverse proxy (preferably one that can be deployed with docker) that allows for rest-api management?
I want to create some automations and need a rest api for a reverse-proxy, so ...
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How can I make a URL on one domain "front" content from another domain?
Let's say I have name.example.com and example.com set up using different CMS's
I would like name.example.com/supercool-landing-page to resolve as (www.)example.com
In other words, when you visit (www.)...
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Nginx reverse proxy into external cPanel server results in an error
I am trying to reverse proxy into a cPanel account by attempting to use the following Nginx configuration (123.123.123.123 is the cPanel IP), but I'm getting an error: ERR_TOO_MANY_REDIRECTS
server {
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How do i setup a simple smart dns proxy service using nginx? [closed]
I have trying to setup a smart dns proxy service using nginx reverse proxy mode. its ok with http sites but i have issues with https sites. when i want to open https sites via my proxy i got following ...
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Redirect requests on alternate port for Apache virtual host
I have Apache server where I make my LoadBalancer for my application sereres through proxy and balancermember. Some of my clients come from legacy access, they use a port in the URL example.com:2030 ...
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Show contents of a basic authentication login-protected site on my site with a proxy
I administer website A that provides information for a number of users. Website B is an external website containing information that I would like to provide to the users of site A. Login credentials ...
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What is a "reverse proxy" in webmastering?
I understand that in computing, the word "proxy" means "medium" or entity Y that mediates between entity X to entity Z.
I have often heard on sysadmins using the webserver software ...
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Prevent attackers from seeing the real IP address behind a Cloudflare proxy
How do I prevent attackers from discovering my real hosting IP (where I'm hosting my website) that is hidden behind CloudFlare Proxy?
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Can a reverse-proxied Facebook in an IFRAME access the other logged-in Facebook's in other windows and IFRAMEs?
We have set up a reverse proxy to Facebook. We wound up another subdomain on our server and pointed it at https://www.facebook.com using the following web.config. (Redacted slightly for security's ...
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Where in the path may I put the language identifier?
My organization has an SEO Auditor telling us that we need to create subdirectories for languages that we support on our website. That requirement is fine.
Our organization's site is comprised of a ...
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nginx location proxy pass forwarding to root URL rather than subdirectory
I am using Nginx as a proxy, example.com is my outward-facing web server with SSL enabled I want traffic coming under https://example.com/gibberish/ to be forwarded under http://localhost:8080/...
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How to direct Apache2 HTTPS sub-directory request to HTTP app server on another port?
for complete Apache newbie, I have NextCloud and Monitorix running on my local server
https://192.168.1.2/nextcloud
http://192.168.1.2:8080/monitorix
and I would like to cover it via SSL, something ...
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Where To Configure SSL On Nginx Reverse Proxy or on Apache2 on Ubuntu 18.04 Server?
My question is about SSL/TLS.
I'm running Ubuntu 18.04 server with:
Apache2 serving 3 public domains on 1 public IP.
On the same server I'm running:
Nginx and will configure as a reverse ...
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Reverse-proxy to hide iframe origin. How does that work?
Somebody told me to use a reverse proxy to make iframe content relevant for the website embedding it. But I can't get my head around how would that work?
As I understand it, I would need a reverse ...
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cPanel powered site is not accessible via IP address by my reverse proxy (it gives a 404 error)
I'm paying for a hosting service which uses cPanel, and a domain name.
Originally, my domain name pointed straight to the hosting service (as is the default).
A new layer I'm adding is a reverse ...
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Proxy a domain from one server to another and retain domain name
I have a single external address that points to a server that is serving multiple domains using virtual hosts. I would like to serve one of the virtual hosts on a new physical machine and am trying to ...
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Why does everyone prefer SSL Offloading?
I started to setup a Reverse Proxy on Windows Server 2012 R2 with IIS and the AAR module installed (but purely as a Reverse Proxy without load balancing). It was relatively easy to setup a URL Rewrite ...
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Nginx reverse proxy 404 multiple apps [closed]
I'm configuring nginx reverse proxy functionality. It's not working for apps as written below. I'll give you an example of /hbase/. When I enter url /hbase/ in browser, I get 404 it redirects to /...
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How are hyperlinks changed with nginx's proxy_pass?
When using nginx as a reverse proxy with proxy_pass, which also provides SSL, it appears that most upstream web servers don't even need to know that they are behind a reverse proxy, or that they are ...
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How to turn off Apache proxy HTML correction
I'm using Apache proxy to access a web application on a VM.
The proxy configuration works great, no issues.
However, a side effect I see is that the Apache proxy "fixes" HTML that is being proxied.
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Nginx reverse proxy appends container port
We have a Kubernetes cluster where we expose an internal service with Nginx. Note that we are not using an ingress resource, but instead deploy an Nginx controller which is bound to an external IP ...
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Mod Rewrite proxy to different backend hosts
I have a virtual host with multiple ServerAlias host1.example.com host02.example.com etc.
I match the same pattern and based on ServerAlias I want to proxy them to different backend hosts. What I ...
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HTTPS proxy in Apache without certificates
The TLS handshake initiation contains the requested domain in cleartext, to allow a server to select the correct certificate. Therefore, the server should be able to proxy the handshake, and all ...
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Nginx fails to start HTTP/2 server due to error: unknown log format
In our hosting server from the Plesk cpanel, Nginx is configured to work as a reverse proxy engine. As I need to enable HTTP/2 that can speed up the loading time of Plesk and hosted websites.
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How to run multiple Node.js sites (apps/servers) with separate SSL cert's, on a single IP address?
The desired scenario is as the title suggests: Multiple Node.js servers/apps/websites, on separate domains, each with own SSL certificate, on a single server with a single IP address. So far I have ...
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Show content from a back end server on another host in a Wordpress sub directory without changing the URL
We currently have a bunch of ASP.NET applications which are all accessible through one domain.
So www.example.com connects to the main website.
www.example.com/documents is a separate application ...
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How does proxy work in Virtualmin, and can I forward whatever.domain.example to an internal ip address with a different port?
In Virtualmin, I've read that you can set up a proxy website under a subdomain.
All traffic on port 80 hits Apache where there are multiple virtual servers sharing the internal server IP.
I have a ...
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VPS with single IP and nginx reverse proxy
I have a VPS with a single IP assigned to it. I am going to set up an nginx reverse proxy to hopefully serve a number of websites from the same server.
As far as I understand, I can have various ...
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Append basic authentication header NGINX to existing authentication header of upstream application
Assume the following setup:
The NGINX reverse proxy is asking for basic authentication (which is a good habit when you expose things on the internet). Basic authentication uses the Authorization ...
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How to set up a reverse proxy on an SSL subdirectory from another server?
Setup is as follows:
Our agency's client's domain is https://www.example.com (with SSL certificate from Amazon)
They have NGINX severs, and manage their own hosting
They want us to build a few simple ...
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Is it good to crawl metadata via proxy for several bot engines?
I am new to AngularJS and due to some technical issues or maybe I'm just not aware of the right way, I am facing SEO related issues. So at the moment I plant a proxy server running behind the main ...
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How do I use URL redirection with reverse proxy?
My requirement is to redirect the URL, which is running on port 80 with reverse proxy. I guess I would have to use URL redirection, reverse proxy together.
There is already a web-domain active like : ...
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Apache Reverse Proxy Rewrite Remote_User
Running httpd 2.4.6 on CentOS 7 as a reverse proxy for Splunk with SSO.
This works with no proxying:
RewriteCond %{LA-U:REMOTE_USER} "user" [NC]
RewriteRule ^.*$ - [F,L]
The above does NOT work ...
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Reverse Proxy: serve file from local filesystem if it exists [closed]
Imagine the following situation:
I have a distant server for a website.
And I have local servers with a reverse proxy where large files (like videos) are uploaded at off-peak time.
Now I want the ...
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Get real user IP behind two reverse proxies
This is my environment setup:
Server A hosts the site (Nginx + PHP-FPM + Wordpress)
Server B is Nginx reverse proxy for server A
Cloudflare reverse proxy is on top of all.
Therefore, user request ...
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CGI with Reverse Proxy Settings (Apache)
I have two VMs running two webapps. We want to use example.com/foo for accessing VM1, and example.com/bar for accessing VM2.
For both VMs I need to call a cgi script for downloading. So I have ...
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HTTPS with Typo3 behind a reverse proxy
I have problems running typo3 (version 6.2.30 LTS) on my webhoster. The hoster uses an reverse proxy in front of the webspace which seems to forward all requests as normal http requests. The php-...
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Apache proxypass directive does not recover quickly
I am using this "simple" apache ProxyPass directive.
<VirtualHost *:80>
ProxyPreserveHost On
ProxyPass / http://0.0.0.0:3000/
ProxyPassReverse / http://0.0.0.0:3000/
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How to host two web servers on same network under the same domain [closed]
I have multiple Raspberry Pi's on my network that are hosting different web apps that all run webservers (OwnCloud, VPN, Webpage).
I was wondering what the best way to have them under a single domain ...
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Using mod_rewrite to check for existence of a cookie
I have an internal website at my company that I'd like to allow outside access to via a reverse proxy with an Apache Server.
The difficulty here is that I only want particular mobile users accessing ...
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Multiple Web servers on a single IP [closed]
A few other questions on here cover how to do this on a single server but I'm having trouble figuring out how to build this with multiple Web servers behind a single external IP.
I have a simple ...
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Apache reverse proxy changing Content-Type
Update 3:
I've experimented a bit with setting ContentType for all css files to different types like text/plain, text/html and text/css in the .htaccess file of the webserver hosting Owncloud and ...
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Facebook share preview not working when behind reverse proxy
I host a website on Azure (Web App), but in front of it there is a reverse proxy server (Win Server 2012R2, IIS 8, ARR 3) to route /blog requests to another server.
If I try to share an url (...
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Rstudio Apache2 reverse proxy sends me back to index.php after sign-in
I'm trying to set up an Apache2 reverse proxy to access another machine at home. I've got the Apache 000-default.conf set up as follows:
<VirtualHost *:80 *:443>
ProxyPreserveHost On
# Servers ...
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Webmin: Cannot login through nginx reverse proxy
I've created a reverse proxy for webmin through nginx to run webmin at [site domain]/webmin instead of port 10000 ([site domain]:10000).
When I go to [site domain]/webmin, the login page shows up as ...
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Using mod_rewrite to force users to use our caching proxy
During a recent audit we became aware of several users who have not set their DNS records to correctly point to our name servers.
Since we don't control the domain names of our users directly, we're ...
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Identify IP address / hosting of inner pages
Working on a website which an SEO agency had previously done lots of spammy work on and built loads of duplicate home pages in subfolders just with a different locals in the title and URLs.
However ...
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Cache an external site that may have a mobile version
In continuation of the answer for the "Nginx Reverse Proxy for Tumblr" question, what is the best way to cache a web-site like Tumblr with nginx, which returns distinct results depending on the User-...
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Mirror website across different hosting accounts
Is it possible to mirror a website across different hosting accounts, for example:
exampleA.com (public)
exampleB.com (private)
When people access the website they will be visiting exampleA.com but ...
