Reverse Proxy

The reverse proxy is used in front of the webserver and have the main goal to enable the webserver to provide content from another, in a transparent way for the users.

• The first example stands for this situation: When someone enter the URL http://estore.domainx.com they will be transfered to a internal site running in another server. So the first step is the site creation (Figure 4.46), and after that the reverse proxy definition (Figure 4.47);
• In the second example the idea is for someone in Internet that wants to accede a site running in a internal machine (http://192.168.1.4:85/cgi/site). To do this we just need to add a new reverse proxy definition at the base domain (Figure 4.48 and Figure 4.49);

Figure 4.46: Web Server - Reverse Proxy - Example 1 - Empty site created

Figure 4.47: Web Server - Reverse Proxy - Example 1 - Add

Figure 4.48: Web Server - Reverse Proxy - Example 2 - Add

Figure 4.49: Web Server - Reverse Proxy - Example 2 - List