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[EP-tech] Re: EPrints behind a reverse proxy

On 27/02/12 13:19, Yuri wrote:

Il 27/02/2012 13:32, Ian Stuart ha scritto:

On 27/02/12 12:07, raffaele messuti wrote:

still not convinced , but i'll try ;)

the parameters entered in epadmin create (hostname and port) are
written in 10_core.pl
where is the magic in changing it later? they are written elsewhere?

The "change it back" part is under "Configuring the repository"

The way a reverse-proxy works is thus:

1) Request comes in for host1.example.com
2) Proxy translates the address to services.example.com:1234
3) Backend server does whatever it needs to do&   writes the page (to the
proxy server)
4) Proxy server takes the response, and replaces the address line from
services.example.com:1234 to host1.example.com (but leaves the content
as is)


What if the content contain urls to services.example.com:1234? :)
Then the contents contain services.example.com:1234 when the browser sees host1.example.com in the address bar.... and when the user clicks on the link, the client will switch to using services.example.com:1234 (assuming the firewall for their organisation does not block port 1234) 

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Ian Stuart.
Developer: Open Access Repository Junction and OpenDepot.org
Bibliographics and Multimedia Service Delivery team,
EDINA,
The University of Edinburgh.

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