Reverse Proxy

The reverse proxy is used in front of the Webserver and has the main objective of redirecting all connections addressed to various Webservers to be routed through the proxy server. A reverse proxy has the function of dispatching incoming network traffic to various servers and is totally transparent to the user (he will not know that a proxy is being used).

• The first example stands for this situation: When someone enters 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 4.53), and after that the reverse proxy definition (Figure 4.54);
• In the second example the idea is for someone in the Internet that wants to access 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 4.55 and Figure 4.56);

Figure 4.53: Web Server - Reverse Proxy - Example 1 - Empty site created

Figure 4.54: Web Server - Reverse Proxy - Example 1 - Add

Figure 4.55: Web Server - Reverse Proxy - Example 2 - Add

Figure 4.56: Web Server - Reverse Proxy - Example 2 - List