Need suggestions on proxy software

aasl · 01-24-2014, 01:55 AM

Hi. I am looking for a software that can make my own PC as a proxy.

I have a web service deployed on amazon ec2 with port 8080 opened. I have another 11 machines, Node1 with both internet and internal network connections, and the rest 10 nodes are in LAN. I want to use Node1 as the proxy porting my amazon web app 8080 to the rest 10 nodes, e.g. the ten nodes can visit my webapp via Node1:8080 instead of ip-of-amazon:8080. What type of software should I use?

I did googled the results, but I only find how to setup to connect to a proxy server in linux, which I think cannot meet my need.

Thank you for your attention!

acid_kewpie · 01-24-2014, 02:35 AM

well that's a (weird) reverse proxy you're describing there. Apache does a great job of this, with very little config.

This looks useful enough - http://www.apachetutor.org/admin/reverseproxies just ignore everything before "configuring the proxy" as you've no need to compile it from source, just install from your repos and add in the ProxyPass / ProxyPassReverse directives to the largely default config you have.

aasl · 01-24-2014, 03:43 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by acid_kewpie

well that's a (weird) reverse proxy you're describing there. Apache does a great job of this, with very little config.

This looks useful enough - http://www.apachetutor.org/admin/reverseproxies just ignore everything before "configuring the proxy" as you've no need to compile it from source, just install from your repos and add in the ProxyPass / ProxyPassReverse directives to the largely default config you have.

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well that's a (weird) reverse proxy you're describing there. Apache does a great job of this, with very little config.

This looks useful enough - http://www.apachetutor.org/admin/reverseproxies just ignore everything before "configuring the proxy" as you've no need to compile it from source, just install from your repos and add in the ProxyPass / ProxyPassReverse directives to the largely default config you have.

Thank you for your reply! I am not familiar with apache httpd. I think what I need is a bit different: I want the internal node to access the specific port only, i.e. by specifying Node1:8080, the internal node can access the port 8080 of my amazon web service.

acid_kewpie · 01-24-2014, 04:42 AM

why would you say you want something different when you don't know much about what I've suggested your solution should be?

aasl · 01-25-2014, 12:56 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by acid_kewpie

why would you say you want something different when you don't know much about what I've suggested your solution should be?

I am sorry... Based on my understanding of apache, I thought it might not meet my need. Would you like to tell me how to configure apache?

yenn · 01-25-2014, 01:29 PM

You could as well try Lighttpd or Nginx. In most scenarios they are lighter on system resources than apache and configuration is IMHO a lot simpler. Just look at each webserver configuration and decide which syntax you like/understand the most.

See: lighttpd-as-reverse-proxy, using-nginx-as-reverse-proxy.

acid_kewpie · 01-27-2014, 02:10 AM

I already gave you a link explaining it. Please read replies fully.