Questions tagged [reverse-proxy]
In computer networks, a reverse proxy is a type of proxy server that retrieves resources on behalf of a client from one or more servers. These resources are then returned to the client through the reverse proxy as though they originated from the server itself.
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Why do we need L7 reverse proxy for increasing the limit of max TCP connection to the backend?
I stumbled upon a YT video- 5 mins which explains that there's technically no limit to the number of connections that can be opened between the clients and servers even if there's a reverse proxy ...
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Zero downtime deployment for nodejs
At my company we have a nodejs api, with a front end applcation.
Currently it is a systemd service, and a nodejs cluster.
When we deploy a new version, we restart the systemd service and the service ...
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I am having trouble exposing services on home network to the internet
I have a one of those HP mini PCs that I use as a home server and it has some applications running in docker containers. Now I want to share some of these with my friends and communities I am part of ...
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Obico Tunneling Nginx Configuration
ive got some problems with setting up obico tunneling as the documentation doesnt tell you how you need to configure nginx.
So you have following ports wich are for tunneling: 15853, 15854, 15855, ...
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Enabling reverse proxy to subdomain on Nginx
I have MediaCMS set up on a subdomain, and I would like to be able to access it from path on the root domain. That is, it is currently hosted and accessible at https://media.example.com, and I would ...
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Nginx proxy_pass with custom variable
I have a question regarding the proxy_pass and dynamic subdomains.
on my server, I have a site_block which looks like this:
upstream mydockersite{
server 127.0.0.1:8081;
}
server {
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Which Nginx modules should be removed when building a reverse proxy server?
I'll be compiling Nginx. The main purpose is to use it as reverse proxy. Also I would like to have the --with-http_auth_request_module enabled.
Which nginx module should I disable?
Is disabling the ...
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Use nginx to serve SSH on different virtual server than HTTP(S)
My question is a bit different than serve ssh & https at the same time or redirect http requests to ssh. I don't want to multiplex the stream. I do have a virtual server to "spare" ...
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PowerBI IIS Reverse Proxy asks for credential but does not login
I have a PowerBI installed in an IIS and works with all of these URLs:
localhost:8080/reports
HOSTNAME:8080/reports
10.1.10.10:8080/reports
And I am trying to do this with Reverse Proxy:
localhost/...
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Nginx proxy menager server multiple subdomains on port 80
I just installed nginx poxy menager and nginx. I have a webserver on port 8021 and i want to have it on panel.mydomain.com:80 with https.
I'm trying to forward a webserver on port 8021 to a subdomain ...
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Can I send remote port as custom header in AWS CloudFront to EC2
I tried to configure CloudFront as a reverse proxy to an EC2 VM. I need to send a custom HTTP header with the remote port.
I want to do something like in nginx:
proxy_set_header X-Custom-Remote-Port $...
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nginx load balancing very slow for single request
I have been using nginx with load balancing for request forwarding purpose, each incoming request will be forwarded to ip/domain defined in upstream, below is my configuration :
worker_processes 1;
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Is it possible to clear the cache of a specific url with NGINX?
I am using NGINX as a reverse server, but I have a problem when making changes to a page of my website, the changes are not seen until I clean the entire NGINX cache, causing it to clean my entire ...
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nginx or apache2 as https proxy for spring boot application using websockets
I have a number of web applications running on my Ubuntu servers, each on their own port using HTTP. Apache is setup as a reverse proxy to provide HTTPS access with a letsencrypt certificate. The ...
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ISP Router, Promox, PFSense, Cloudfare, Traefik and Pihole : how to connect all?
My first question in this community. Sorry for the basic question, answers are in several posts but I need to put them all together.
I have bought a Google domain, and using cloudfare as the DNS ...
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How does proxy server know which client is the recipient of a response?
In Network Address Translation, port number is used to determine which client is the recipient of a response from a server.
But how about in proxy? Let's say we have two clients, clientA and clientB, ...
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I want to manage multiple servers with 1 external address
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My domain : xxx.com My External ip: 88.101.10.30 WAN ADRESS
DNS A RECORD A record server1.xxx.com 88.101.10.30
A record server2.xxx.com 88.101.10.30 A record server3.xxx.com
88.101.10.30 . . ...
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Reverse-proxy under a load balancer
I am trying to build a web server using nginx. It is published to the internet under a load balancer.
It has a shared public IP (e.g. 96.1.2.3) with a public DNS as well (e.g. example.domain.com). ...
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nginx: http to https not working on chrome
I've got this nginx configuration to redirect http to https:
# http redirects to https
server {
listen 80 default_server;
server_name _;
return 301 https://$host$request_uri;
}
server {
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How to set up https on localhost, multi subdomains under same app
I write web apps and I spin server on port 3000.
I use lvh.me:3000 to resolve to my localhost, lvh.me resolves to 127.0.0.1.
This all works and points to the same app
http://lvh.me:3000
http://foo....
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Reverse Proxy Server not forwarding one web site, but ok for others
To set my level, I'm a Raspberry Pi and Linux experimenter, and not an experienced network administrator. To get this far I have used the web and several tutorials. I'm learning, but sometime I ...
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Avoiding a second gateway on an industrial machine WAN connection
I have an industrial machine. The vendor has added an industrial VPN box (device A below) and has set all the devices on the LAN to use it as the gateway.
The vendor is extremely security conscious ...
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How redirect requests to another domain name without changing the website URL?
I have a web site exemple.com and another named dummy.com. The two of them point to the same server.
What I want is that the home page of dummy.com show, in reality, exemple.com/dummy but I don't want ...
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Proxying FTP Over MQTT
Considering we have established a secure connection via MQTT (Let's say to AWS-IoT /Azure etc) can we then use it to tunnel FTP server running on Embedded Device (For remote access)?
If it's possible, ...
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Is overrideing DNS entries in LAN a good idea?
I got a fairly simple setup which consists of 2 servers and couple of users.
server #1, int -> server in my home LAN where my application lives, in this case it's nextcloud (with nginx web server, ...
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Put mitmproxy behind a reverse proxy
I have a mitmproxy instance running on port 2222. I want to put it behind a reverse proxy (like Nginx or Caddy), so I can use it as mitmproxy.tld. It seems that mitmproxy can't be accessed by anything ...
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How an Apache reverse proxy to other machine with no port forwading? [closed]
Is apache can bi-directional reverse to other apache that sit in other machine with mobile ip that not allow port forwading?
I want apache that run in mobile act as apache client that open bi-...
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Nginx Reverse Proxy - Modify custom header values if present
I'm trying to add different apps behind different locations of a reverse proxy.
I'm aware of the proxy_redirect directive which modifies the Location and Refresh headers, however I also need to modify ...
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How can I reverse-proxy-forward a subdomain to a specific internal port?
I'm struggling to forward subdomains from WAN to particular services on my LAN. Most services are running on a NAS with a static LAN IP address. Some of the services are Docker containers, some are ...
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Gitea W. Debian 10 (LAMP) ISPConfig & Reverse Proxy
I am stuck. Using the following the steps I am able to install Gitea on my system, but I keep getting 503 errors after I fill in my data and click "install".
Here are my installation steps:
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NGINX proxy_pass without changing URL
My Goal
My goal is to redirect to a different web page without changing the URL in the address bar. So for example I want to redirect from https://my.site.com/path to https://external.com/other, but ...
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Apache reverse proxy - URL without / is refused
I use reverse proxy to show backend server content for a subdomain.
The subdomain.mydomain.com (server A) should display content of server with IP 123.123.123.123 port 1111 (server B).
Virtual host of ...
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Nginx running in Docker, reverse proxying to localhost outside of Docker
As a workaround for some operational silliness in a work project, I am trying to:
Run Service A listening on localhost:4001 and Service B listening localhost:4002.
Run Nginx inside a Docker container;...
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nginx reverse proxy to apache webdav
So I started using nginx to reverse proxy to a couple of services a have home. One of them is my webdav server under Apache. Here is my config file:
server {
listen 80;
listen [::]:80;
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Multiple Web Server on Single Public IP
I got an unused server from my office. Set up my server with windows server 2019 with IIS 10 and running Ubuntu 20.04 on VMWare Player 16 and set the network mode to Bridge network.
Say, my windows ...
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caddy-docker-proxy to host port
I'm running cockpit on port 9090 on my host machine.
In a docker container on the host is the caddy-docker-proxy.
The reverse proxy (RP) container is linked to the host ports 80 and 443.
Is there any ...
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Why can't I get Nginx reverce proxy to show real client / visitor IP?
I have been struggling for several weeks now trying to get my Nginx reverse proxy to show / pass through the real visitor IP and I have reached the point where I have no more ideas to try. I have of ...
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How to use a reverse proxy to split traffic between containers based on URL
I'm on a residential network (behind a NAT), and want to host multiple services in containers on a server.
Since they all use the same internal ports (and it is very difficult to change them), I was ...
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Apache use case
I use Apache to serve several sites to the world on my home server on port 443 using an SSL certificate. Last night I installed a linux binary that serves a site only on a port defined via its config ...
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Apache http to https redirect with Squid reverse-proxy
I have a web server that runs website example.com. I have configured http to https redirect on apache; See below
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName www.example.com
Redirect permanent / https://...
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Using an apache2 instance already hosting websites as a reverse proxy to force HTTPS
I'm running an Apache2 instance on Debian 10 and I have an application that only supports HTTP and runs on port 53842 (although that can be changed), however, when I try to connect to it, Firefox ...
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How does a reverse proxy server receive the subdomain?
I recently set up a reverse proxy server on some some Docker containers using Nginx and it works as expected. I am reverse proxying on these containers themselves to applications being run on these ...
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syncthing + apache reverse proxy for multiple users
OK so I'm having a bit of a mare.
On a computer I have three users, say user1, user2, and user3. Each user is running syncthing and listening on 8384/22000, 8385/22001 and 8386/22002 respectively.
For ...
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NGINX as TLS-transparent (secure TCP) and a TLS-terminating (TLS offload) reverse-proxy based on sub-domain name
I host a few services from my home network to the internet and I learned recently about reverse-proxy concepts using NGINX. Some of my services (like Home Assistant) have the built-in ability to ...
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How to forward HTTPS to HTTP for any IP address?
I have an iFrame in an HTTPS site. This iframe must point to an IP (not specific, there are hundreds of different ones) in HTTP. Currently, it doesn't work: "This request has been blocked; the ...
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Why has connection to my minecraft server (via nginx) been lost after setting up new network, while all other nginx served services work fine?
I host a bunch of services (via subdomains) in nginx, e.g. mine.mydomain.com, doku.mydomain.com, etc. This has run smoothly for years (Ubuntu Server, now on 20.04 LTS, almost everything, including ...
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Docker collabora office with nextcloud on nginx, debian stopped working
I have a Debian 9 LEMP server up and running since 2 years.
Nextcloud, Collabora Office in docker, with Letsencrypt certificates.
Everything runs smooth. I always did my updates to the latest versions....
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Nginx Reverse Proxy to TCP
I have an rtmp server (no changes can be made) but I want to serve it from the main domain. How can I do this with nginx or similar?
url: rtmp: //domain.com/live/stream_id
I want to serve as follows.
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Nginx reverse proxy is rewriting url to 127.0.0.1
I have a nginx reverse proxy on a server where I run a bunch of apps, e.g. app1.domain.com, app2.domain.com, etc. I recently added a new application with the following config (with LetsEncrypt for SSL)...
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Having problems with nginx in openwrt
I have a router with external ip xxx.yyy.zzz.aaa with openwrt installed on it. It also has nginx package installed. I also has a web server with internal ip aaa.bbb.ccc.eee, connected to router's lan. ...
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