On Wed, 17 Dec 2008 14:10:21 -0500
Kurt Hansen <khan...@charityweb.net> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> amiribarksdale wrote:
> > 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
> >
> I've only read some docs and reviews for nginx so far, but I thought
> it supported ssl. Does it not? Do none of the 3?
>
> Right now, I'm using the dual-apache setup on one server. The light
> apache has ssl compiled in. It is the only one listening on the
> public ports of 80 and 443; it then forwards everything to the
> mod_perl apache on port 81.
>
> I've been assuming that I could replace my light apache with ssl with
> nginx with ssl with essentially the same setup. I'd move nginx to a
> separate machine, though, so I would do same more load balancing and
> fault tolerance. nginx would be listening in on port 80 and 443 and
> forwarding things on.
>
> Is this not possible?
It's definitely possible, I use nginx on both 80 and 443 all the time.
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