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Martin Hope
ylluminate
Asked: 2012-05-05 09:41:37 +0800 CST
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Having an odd problem here with regards to pound reverse proxy no longer directing traffic properly on a CentOS based distro (ClearOS 6.2.x).

I believe that it's an iptables issue or something else in that I see nothing to even indicate inbound traffic in my /var/log/messages or /var/log/system.

How can I increase iptables logging verbosity and verify what is going on with it (in terms of certainty as to where the logging data is being kept)?

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Martin Hope
user1075894
Asked: 2012-03-21 03:39:59 +0800 CST
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I'm looking at introducing a loadbalancer to my existing site infrastructure to help with traffic growth and provide a level of failure protection.

The site I am running uses SSL certificates for the login section and I will need to continue with this functionality. The backend servers will need to be aware of the originating IP address so I can't use the TCP loadbalancing function and will need the SSL terminated on the loadbalancer so I can insert a

X-Forwarded-For

Header. I have seen a couple of ways of implementing the SSL decryption functionality one using stunnel and the other using Pound. I've been looking around however I am not sure what the pros/cons are of using one over the other. Does anyone have any experience in this and offer their recommendation?

Thanks

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Martin Hope
Keith Palmer Jr.
Asked: 2011-01-11 07:45:39 +0800 CST
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We have an existing application that we wish to split across multiple servers (for example: 1000 users total, 100 users split across 10 servers).

Ideally, we'd like to be able relay the HTTPS requests to a particular server based on some component of the URL. For example: Users 1 through 100 go to http://server1.domain.com/ Users 2 through 200 go to http://server2.domain.com/ etc. etc. etc.

Where the incoming requests look like this: https://secure.domain.com/user/{integer user # goes here}/path/to/file

Does anyone know of an easy way to do this? Pound looks promising... but it doesn't look like it supports routing based on URL like this.

Even better would be if it didn't need to be hard-coded- The load balancer could make a separate HTTP request to another server to ask "Hey, what server should I relay to for a request to URL {the URL that was requested goes here}?" and relay to the hostname returned in the HTTP response.

apache-2.2 load-balancing pound
Martin Hope
Matthias
Asked: 2010-11-25 06:34:57 +0800 CST
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I want to switch from a apache ReverseProxy to pound.

My problem is: There are rules in my proxy.conf like:
ProxyPass /lalelu http://internale/NOT_Lalelu

Now in pound I couldn´t figure out how to "map" this.
I can only:

Service
URL "/lalelu"
Backend
Adress internal
Port
End
End

Am I wright, or is there a way to map a directory to the root or to another directory?

Thanks

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Martin Hope
Richard
Asked: 2010-09-22 16:37:25 +0800 CST
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I work for a small business that has one web server. It's served us fine in the past but as we're getting bigger we need another server.

How would I set up two servers to work together? I've read a bit about Pound load balancing, would I need a third computer to make this work?

The server will be doing basic web serving and a few light database operations.

I'm the most "techy" guy in the business and we've never had the need to hire a server guy so they're asking me to do this.

Can you help me out?

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