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  • Re: BBS Software.....

    From Blue White@21:4/134 to apam on Wed Dec 11 16:52:58 2019
    apam wrote to Havok <=-

    Use apache. You can proxy to mystic's webserver, and have subdomains.

    How does one do that, i.e. set up a web server that proxies another one? I know how to set up a page and add a link, but I think that just hands the connection off from one server to another.


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  • From apam@21:1/126 to Blue White on Thu Dec 12 10:24:15 2019
    apam wrote to Havok <=-

    Use apache. You can proxy to mystic's webserver, and have
    subdomains.

    How does one do that, i.e. set up a web server that proxies another
    one? I know how to set up a page and add a link, but I think that
    just hands the connection off from one server to another.

    You use an extension for apache called mod_proxy, then in your apache configuration you set it up to proxy through to another webserver.

    on my bbs, everything under /bbs/ gets proxied to magicka, but you can
    do it with the root as well.

    Andrew

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  • From NuSkooler@21:1/121 to Blue White on Wed Dec 11 23:25:40 2019
    How does one do that, i.e. set up a web server that proxies another one? I know how to set up a page and add a link, but I think that just hands the connection off from one server to another.

    Apache is a pretty monsterous beast - Personally, I'd look into nginx or Caddy for this task. They are both dead simple to configure for subdomains and the like. Caddy (maybe nginx at this point?) has the advantage of built in ACME clients so you can get Let's Encrypt going (if needed) with almost zero effort.


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  • From apam@21:1/126 to NuSkooler on Thu Dec 12 16:45:19 2019
    On Wednesday, December 11th Blue White muttered...
    How does one do that, i.e. set up a web server that proxies
    another one? I know how to set up a page and add a link, but
    I think that just hands the connection off from one server to
    another.

    Apache is a pretty monsterous beast - Personally, I'd look into
    nginx or Caddy for this task. They are both dead simple to
    configure for subdomains and the like. Caddy (maybe nginx at this
    point?) has the advantage of built in ACME clients so you can get
    Let's Encrypt going (if needed) with almost zero effort.

    Yeah, I only use apache because it's what I've always used and know how
    to use it.

    Andrew

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  • From Tiny@21:1/130 to NuSkooler on Thu Dec 12 12:50:34 2019
    Quoting NuSkooler to Blue White <=-

    Apache is a pretty monsterous beast - Personally, I'd look into nginx
    or Caddy for this task. They are both dead simple to configure for subdomains and the like. Caddy (maybe nginx at this point?) has the advantage of built in ACME clients so you can get Let's Encrypt going
    (if needed) with almost zero effort.

    The main reason I'm still using windows is because I don't want to
    configure apache on my linux box. I'll look into Caddy today though
    maybe it is the answer.

    Shawn

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