The Pound program is a reverse proxy, load balancer and HTTPS front-end for Web server(s). Pound was developed to enable distributing the load among several Web-servers and to allow for a convenient SSL wrapper for those Web servers that do not offer it natively.
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Pound SSL Wrapper Wordpress Login Issue
my Setup is like this
Visitor -> Pound -> Varnish -> nginx
My Wordpress site is looking fine from the front end (with https), but as soon i try to login to the backend this error comes up "You do not have sufficient permissions to access this…
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Allow HTTPS only for specific domains with pound
quick question here:
I have trafic from several domains routed to a Pound Reverse Proxy.
I have a valid certificate for one of these domain that I want accessible over HTTPS (this part I managed to configure without problem)
However I don't want my…
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Hot-spare using Pound
I currently have a server deployment in which Pound is being used as a reverse proxy (HTTPS -> HTTP) in front of a single server instance. I'd like to add a second instance on a different host that acts as a hot-spare in the event that the main…
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D-I-Y VPS Hosting for multiple domains (3) on a single static IP
and thanks for your input.
What I want to do: I want to host some applications Web and email, for example, for myself and two clients on one static IP Address, primarily to learn, and possibly to consider some limited hosting for a couple of…
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Shane
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Pound URL Redirect with negative pattern wouldn't match
I'm using Pound(8) - HTTP/HTTPS reverse-proxy and load-balancer.
# rpm -q Pound
Pound-2.6-2.el6.x86_64
#
I'd like to be able to redirect certain URL patterns, a user hitting URL https://www.xxx.tld/ and he/she gets redirected to…
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Trying to setup transparent, load balancing, SSL reverse proxy. Is it possible?
I've done a few weeks worth of research on this topic for a project, and unfortunately I'm a simple code monkey, my knowledge of networking and SSL are limited. Pretty much every search I've done so far has brought me to serverfault, where I…
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pound ssl offloading and haproxy balance source
I have pound in front of haproxy for ssl termination. haproxy has a frontend that balance with source algorithm.
The problem is that the ssl connections from pound are balanced to the one server meanwhile plain http from the same client is sent to…
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Zen Load Balancer HTTPS to HTTPS
I've been struggling with an issue that I am hoping someone can help with. Basically, I have setup a working Zen Load Balancer going from HTTPS to HTTP but I am struggling with getting it to work using HTTPS on both sides. When I configure HTTPS to…
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Lotus Domino 8.5.3FP2 behind pound Reverse proxy: Wrong redirect
I have a problem with the following setup:
A pound reverse proxy faces the internet with port 443.
The pound reverse proxy is configured to redirect to the internal server
The (internal) domino server only has port 80 enabled.
The homepage of…
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Tode
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How to find and fix issue with Pound and HAProxy
Pound sits in front of HAProxy (on the same box) to perform SSL off-load. Requests are passed to 127.0.0.1:80 where HAProxy then balances the requests across backend servers for a hosted ASP .NET web app.
A user is getting HTTP error 500 (Internal…
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Shibboleth + IIS and Pound Reverse Proxy
Having a bit of a problem getting Shibboleth (SSO) working with ADFS and Pound.
The main problem seems to be that:
The website address will be https://website.domain.com
Pound will then terminate the SSL and forward the traffic to the webserver on…
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boburob
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how to pass domain name to backend with pound
I am using pound as a way to decode SSL for the backend, but the bulk of the work is done on varnish (including virtualhost stuff). As a result, I need pound to just forward all other traffic to varnish verbatim, but it doesn't seem to do that.
I…
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what reverse proxy server will direct traffic to healthy servers whose health is based on a result string
what reverse proxy server will direct traffic to healthy servers whose health is based on a result string??
ideally i'd like something like dnsmadeeasy or ultradns - lol - but for reverse proxy
i have looked at pound, delegate, ha proxy, squid,…
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joshua paul
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Equivalent for HAProxy's option forwardfor/close in Pound
I'm switching from HAProxy to Pound and I need to know if there is an equivalent of
option forwardfor
option httpclose
in Pound.
BTW, I'm already using the
HeadRemove "X-Forwarded-For"
in Pound.
Thanks
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Wordpress 3 multi-site install
Trying to figure out if this is possible... My company has a cms product that was written in Java and we decided to use Wordpress to run blogs for our clients. Obviously, Wordpress does not run on tomcat(at least not by default) so we installed…
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