Commit af972072 authored by Ken Coar's avatar Ken Coar
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	Add a 'howto' item submitted in April of 1998 (ouch!).

Submitted by:	David Sedlock <das@step.de>
Reviewed by:	Ken Coar


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    URL</A>

<LI><A HREF="#logreset">reset your log files</A>

<LI><A HREF="#stoprob">stop/restrict robots</A>

<LI><A HREF="#proxyssl">proxy SSL requests <EM>through</EM> your non-SSL

    server</A>

</UL>



<HR>
@@ -161,6 +163,46 @@ in which they can roam, create a <CODE>robots.txt</CODE> file; refer 
to the <A HREF="http://info.webcrawler.com/mak/projects/robots/robots.html"

>robot information pages</A> provided by Martijn Koster for the syntax.</P>



<HR>

<H2><A NAME="proxyssl">How to proxy SSL requests <EM>through</EM>

    your non-SSL Apache server</A>

    <BR>

    <SMALL>(<EM>submitted by David Sedlock</EM>)</SMALL>

</H2>

<P>

SSL uses port 443 for requests for secure pages. If your browser just

sits there for a long time when you attempt to access a secure page

over your Apache proxy, then the proxy may not be configured to handle

SSL. You need to instruct Apache to listen on port 443 in addition to

any of the ports on which it is already listening:

</P>

<PRE>

    Listen 80

    Listen 443

</PRE>

<P>

Then set the security proxy in your browser to 443. That might be it!

</P>

<P>

If your proxy is sending requests to another proxy, then you may have

to set the directive ProxyRemote differently. Here are my settings:

</P>

<PRE>

    ProxyRemote http://nicklas:80/ http://proxy.mayn.franken.de:8080

    ProxyRemote http://nicklas:443/ http://proxy.mayn.franken.de:443

</PRE>

<P>

Requests on port 80 of my proxy <SAMP>nicklas</SAMP> are forwarded to

proxy<SAMP>.mayn.franken.de:8080</SAMP>, while requests on port 443 are

forwarded to <SAMP>proxy.mayn.franken.de:443</SAMP>.

If the remote proxy is not set up to

handle port 443, then the last directive can be left out. SSL requests

will only go over the first proxy.

</P>

<P>

Note that your Apache does NOT have to be set up to serve secure pages

with SSL. Proxying SSL is a different thing from using it.

</P>

<!--#include virtual="footer.html" -->

</BODY>

</HTML>