Oh, one other wrinkle is ssl. I had to forgo proxying my ssl pages using nginx, varnish or lighttpd. In all three cases I had to make apache listen on my real IP address to port 443 for https from the internet, and only allow it to listen on localhost:8080 for whatever was sent from the reverse_proxy.
Amiri amiribarksdale wrote: > > I was just grappling with this problem last week, and after trying out > lighttpd, nginx, and varnish, I chose varnish. > > I too run one single mod-perl server, but it's sort of complicated, with > file uploads and customizable pages and stuff. I found that neither > lighttpd or nginx really allowed me to handle large file uploads > transparently without strange pauses and what not--both pre-cache file > uploads in full before passing them back to the Apache/mod_perl server. I > am sure I simply couldn't figure out how to configure those features > properly, but ease of use is part of the game. > > Varnish, on the other hand, was no harder to set up and begin to > understand, and it handled uploads well. There's some trickiness to > setting up the rules in your default.vcl, but it works nicely, and there > was no need to fiddle with the config just to allow uploads to go through > quickly. > > I'm contentedly serving static files and some dynamic-but-rarely-updated > html from my varnish cache now. > > Amiri > > > Frank Wiles wrote: >> >> On Sat, 13 Dec 2008 03:02:00 +0100 (CET) >> Jeff Pang <pa...@laposte.net> wrote: >> >>> Hello, >>> >>> I have a modperl application on a host which is running with heavy >>> load. I have the plan to put a reverse proxy before it. >>> There are two well known reverse proxy software, one is Squid, >>> another is nginx. Which one is better for modperl application? or is >>> there any others which are better than these two? >> >> I've used mod_proxy, Perlbal, and nginx. These days nginx is my >> favorite, it just works and has a ton of features. Also it appears to >> have the most active community development, but that's subjective as I >> don't follow them all very closely. >> >> ------------------------------------------------------- >> Frank Wiles, Revolution Systems, LLC. >> Personal : fr...@wiles.org http://www.wiles.org >> Work : fr...@revsys.com http://www.revsys.com >> >> >> > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/which-reverse-proxy-for-modperl--tp20986586p21058934.html Sent from the mod_perl - General mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
