[Web4lib] Reverse proxying for offsite (subscription) databases

[Andrew Ashton]

There is an Ezproxy listserv (ezproxy at ls.suny.edu), which is fairly
active and chock full o' good advice for setting up proxy-via-hostname.
The only catch that I ran into was setting it up to run on port 80 on a
server where we already had Apache running a web site on port 80.  TO
make it work you need to give Ezproxy its own IP address, which gets a
little complicated.  The alternative, which we chose, was to run proxy
by hostname on port 2048.  You still have to deal with one nonstandard
port, but it is far preferable to having to support a separate port for
every host you proxy in proxy-by-port.

--
Andrew Ashton
Systems Librarian
Scribner Library, Skidmore College
(518)580-5505

-----Original Message-----
From: web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org
[mailto:web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org] On Behalf Of Ross Singer
Sent: Monday, July 07, 2008 9:52 AM
To: carlos at dml.vic.edu.au
Cc: web4lib at webjunction.org
Subject: Re: [Web4lib] Reverse proxying for offsite (subscription)
databases

EZProxy supports a wildcard hostname that allows you direct all traffic
over ports 80 and 443 by prepending all of the host/port information on
the front of your URL:

http://www.usefulutilities.com/support/cfg/proxybyhostname.html

-Ross.

On Sun, Jul 6, 2008 at 11:43 PM, carlos lopez <carlos at dml.vic.edu.au>
wrote:
> Hi folks
>
> We're currently using EZProxy for user authentication and connection 
> to offsite databases for our remote users. It's worked well for us so 
> far, except that it seems to use a set of . . . exotic ports to serve 
> the proxied sites. This is a problem for some of our users, especially

> behind large corporate or government firewalls.
>
> Is anyone using Apache to perform a similar function (but using port 
> 80 exclusively)? I'm sure I could set up Squid to do the same thing, 
> but our current hardware may not be able to cope well with that much
more strain.
>
> c.
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