Reverse Proxy Suggestions

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I'm looking to map one public IP to multiple back-end web servers. I've done this in the past with PFsense and squid. I know I can do this with squid on RHEL, but I'm curious if this is the recommended method. These back-end web servers could be running simple HTTP servers or Web App servers. There's always more than one way to complete a task in Linux, so I'm looking for suggestions, and also how community members have implemented reverse proxies themselves.

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Jamie Bainbridge's picture Red Hat Guru 7257 points
26 July 2018 11:15 PM

Other popular methods for this are:

  • keepalived which does IP-based load balancing
  • haproxy which does HTTP-based load balancing
  • nginx which is a reverse proxy HTTP daemon, similar to what you've already done with Squid
BP Community Member 20 points
30 July 2018 3:08 PM

After reading some of the material for each product, I think keepalived may be exactly what I'm looking for. Thanks for the advise!

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