Reverse Proxy

Volcano · 05-03-2012, 10:57 AM

I see they share same link so how Reverse Proxy and Forward proxy are different ? how they are different ?

ProxyPass /foo http://foo.example.com/bar
ProxyPassReverse /foo http://foo.example.com/bar

source: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/mod/mod_proxy.html

bathory · 05-03-2012, 11:26 AM

Hi,

They share the same link, as they are both part of mod_proxy. The difference is in the directives used to define a reverse or forward proxy.
See the basic usage examples here

Regards

Volcano · 05-03-2012, 12:27 PM

well, I too copied the example from there really.

Anyway, are you trying to say they are differed only by directives ? rests are same.

I dont think so. I guess they have different functionality.I just dont understand how they are different from functional point of view.

bathory · 05-03-2012, 01:50 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Volcano

well, I too copied the example from there really.

Anyway, are you trying to say they are differed only by directives ? rests are same.

I dont think so. I guess they have different functionality.I just dont understand how they are different from functional point of view.

Of course they have a different functionality. A forward proxy is used to connect a client to a webserver, in cases the client does not have direct internet access, or if to cache content for speeding things up and so on.
A reverse proxy is used to connect to a server that is not directly accessible from the net.
For a better explanation, have a look at wikipedia

Regards

Satyaveer Arya · 05-03-2012, 02:02 PM

For a very simple understanding, difference between them you can check here, http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2...=votes#tab-top.