NginX Proxy to Provider's Solus

clarity_64

As we all know, some providers have their solus on non-standard ports, and this creates issues when you are behind a firewall at work. I know there are several ways around this, but I would like to setup a reverse proxy to the provider's site. Is this possible?

Here is the current setup I am using that is not working, and I am not that great with the harder configs of NginX.

location /provider/ {

access_log off;
proxy_pass https://solus.provider.com:5656;
proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
proxy_set_header Host $host;
proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
}

clarity_64

Any ideas guys?

Aldryic

I just use Squid and Dante myself; don't really have any experience with NginX, sorry =\

clarity_64

Well, I have a PPTP VPN setup and stuff, but I want to try it this way.

From everything I am seeing, it is setup right, but I am getting an error message from the provider's apache. I can only guess it has something to do with the headers.

clarity_64

If I add login.php/ to the end of the proxy_pass the site loads, but it doesn't follow the new pages.

location /provider/ {
access_log off;
proxy_pass https://solus.provider.com:5656/login.php/;
proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
proxy_set_header Host $host;
proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
}

You can see what I mean at status.clardyhost.com/hostigation

gsrdgrdghd

I'm not really an expert on this, but my guess would be that you open your nginx's website with smth like http://dclardy.net/provider/ but there are always issues whent he path in your browser isn't the path configured in Solus or whatever.
From what i see theres no way to fix this by changing your nginx's configuration file.

dmmcintyre3

Try:
proxy_pass https://solus.provider.com:5656$request_uri;

clarity_64

@dmmcintyre3 said: Try:

proxy_pass https://solus.provider.com:5656$request_uri;

This gives a 502 bad gateway error.

2011/12/13 20:54:26 [error] 27951#0: *5794 no resolver defined to resolve solus.hostigation.com, client: 12.6.128.8, server: status.clardyhost.com, request: "GET /hostigation/ HTTP/1.1", host: "status.clardyhost.com"

dmmcintyre3

how about:
proxy_pass https://solus.provider.com:5656$uri;

clarity_64

@dmmcintyre3 said: how about:

proxy_pass https://solus.provider.com:5656$uri;

Bad gateway on that as well.

clarity_64

I think that I have gotten it. I can't look at the pretty images though. I will look into why that is.

Edit:

I got it to work. If you would like to login to hostigation from behind a firewall, you can use hostigation.clardyhost.com!

breton

So post the solution please

clarity_64

Here is the config that finally got it working for me.

 server {
        listen 80;
        server_name hostigation.clardyhost.com;
        access_log /var/log/nginx/hostigation.access.log;
        error_log /var/log/nginx/hostigation.error.log;
        location / {
                proxy_pass https://solus.hostigation.com:5656/;
                proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
                proxy_set_header Host $host;
                proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
                proxy_redirect default;
        }
}

clarity_64

God the code highlighting looks horrible. Can we get something better?

japon

code with '

code width pre-tags

giang

@dclardy said: God the code highlighting looks horrible. Can we get something better?

Use < pre>< code> </ code></ pre> (Remove space) instead ``

clarity_64

Updated. Thanks for the help! Can we not edit the the code button to place those instead of the ``

giang

Sorry to bump this topic up

My ISP blocked access to facebook, I'm trying to create a proxy, like you did. I replaced:

proxy_pass https://solus.hostigation.com:5656/;

with:

proxy_pass https://www.facebook.com/;

but it didn't work. It redirects to facebook.com instead serve the facebook page on my domain. Any solution? :-s

Adam

@giang: Maybe try the mobile FB site (the mobile site doesn't depend heavily on JS).

giang

@Adam said: Maybe try the mobile FB site (the mobile site doesn't depend heavily on JS).

My ISP blocked all access to facebook Even mobile page/mobile apps

Adam

@giang said: My ISP blocked all access to facebook Even mobile page/mobile apps

Was meaning put the mobile site into nginx instead of the main site: http://m.facebook.com/

giang

I could make it work by remove:

proxy_set_header Host $host;

But it still need to connect to www.facebook.com when login, register...

clarity_64

This will get you to the facebook site. The only issue is when you try to login, you are redirected. I will look into that more.

server {
        listen 80;
        server_name facebook.clardyhost.com;

        access_log /var/log/nginx/faceboook.access.log;
        error_log /var/log/nginx/facebook.error.log;

        location / {
                proxy_pass https://www.facebook.com/;
                proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
                proxy_set_header Host www.facebook.com;
                proxy_redirect default;
        }

}

netomx

Your ISP block Facebook? Wow, never seen that (except China) ... are you in China? You can try VPN.

giang

@netomx said: Your ISP block Facebook? Wow, never seen that (except China) ... are you in China? You can try VPN.

No, I'm Vietnamese. A lot of coutries blocked facebook, not only china
My ISP seems got problem with AAG (Asia American Gateway) cable, broken (again @_@) or something so they temporary use china gateway

justinb

@giang said: My ISP blocked all access to facebook Even mobile page/mobile apps

Facebook uses a ton of javascript, almost NOTHING is loaded off www.facebook.com

iKocka

@giang: Why don't you simply setup SSH tunnel?