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chrajsiel
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Reverse proxy

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Hi, it's me again.

Need your help figuring out what the problem is. I'm not a DBA so I will explain it to the best of my ability. Everything is set up, phpmyfaq 2.7.9 downloaded, webserver, url has been created. But then, when we try to access the link, somewhere the link is broken. I was told that the problem is in the reverse proxy wherein the information from the backend server is lost in between the process. The site always goes back to the host. Does anyone have any idea what it is and how to fix it?

Thanks for any information that you may provide.

Regards,

chrajsiel
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Re: Reverse proxy

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Hi,

you can change the URL in the admin configuration to the reverse proxy URL

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Re: Reverse proxy

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It doesn't help. Changed the URL, cleared cache and restarted. It's the same.
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Re: Reverse proxy

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Hi,

then please explain what is broken exactly.

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Re: Reverse proxy

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I'll try to explain it as how I understood it from our network administrator.

The network administrator installed PHPMyFAQ on a localhost (kbphpfaq-dev.int). Then he created a URL for us at the backend server. Using the reverse proxy, we should be able to access phpmyfaq using http://ourdomain.int/dev/kbphpfaq, instead of the localhost, right? And if we navigate through the website, it should still show http://ourdomain.int/dev/kbphpfaq/.... The problem is, when we use http://ourdomain.int/dev/kbphpfaq, it showed the frontpage in a tree format without stylesheets. If we click on any options like All Categories, we would get an error message saying

"503 Service Unavailable
Failed to resolve the name of server kbphpfaq-dev.int"
because it is pointing to the localhost.

So, it looks like communication is broken or information coming from the backend server is not being sent/received?

I hope I'm able to explain the situation clearly.

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Re: Reverse proxy

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Hi,

if you login into the admin backend and change the "URL for link verification" to the reverse proxy URL all things should work

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Re: Reverse proxy

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Hi Thorsten,

I did change the URL link for verfication to http://ourdomain.int/dev/kbphpfaq. After I changed it, I saved and log-out. Then I cleared the cache and reopen a new browser. When I went to http://ourdomain.int/dev/kbphpfaq, it's the same thing. Frontpage in a tree format, no stylesheet and can't access anything.

Any other ideas or am I doing something wrong?

Thanks again,
chrajsiel
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Re: Reverse proxy

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Hi,

without looking deeply into the server it's really hard to say something valid...

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Re: Reverse proxy

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Is there any extra work that the network administrator has to do to set it up properly? Or maybe someone else in the forum had the same experience and was able to solve it?

Thanks again!
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Re: Reverse proxy

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Hi,

I had one user and they had the same issue. We fixed some things in 2.7.1 and 2.7.2 for solving this.

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Re: Reverse proxy

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Thanks Thorsten.

Did that user do anything extra on their side or is it more a fix on the phpMyFAQ?
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Re: Reverse proxy

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Hi,

no, it works out of the box like I described.

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Re: Reverse proxy

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Thanks Thorsten. I sent you a pm.
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