120: I’m talking about the man in the middle

This week on BSDNow, we are going to be talking to Pawel about how his

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A tutorial on setting up NGINX as a reverse proxy for Apache
Sometimes your users or application require some feature of Apache, that cannot be easily replicated in NGINX, like .htaccess files or a custom apache module
In addition, because the default worker model in Apache does not accept new work until it is finished sending the request, a user with a slow connection can tie down that worker for a long time
With NGINX as a reverse proxy, it will receive the data from the Apache worker over localhost, freeing that worker to answer the next request, while NGINX takes care of sending the data to the user
The tutorial walks through the setup, which is very easy on modern FreeBSD
One could also add mod_rpaf2 to the Apache, to securely pass through the users’ real IP address for use by Apache’s logging and the PHP scripts ***

The story of how a Tent & Awning company switched from managing orders with paper, to a computerized system backed by a FreeNAS
“At first, I looked at off-the-shelf solutions. I found a number of cloud services that were like Dropbox, but with some generic management stuff layered on top. Not only did these all feel like a poor solution, they were very expensive. If the provider were to go out of business, what would happen to my dad’s company?”
“Fortunately, sourcing the hardware and setting up the OS was the easiest part; I talked to iXsystems. I ordered a FreeNAS Mini and a nice workstation tower”
“I have r2d2 (the tower, which hosts the database) replicating ZFS snapshots to c3po (the FreeNAS mini), and the data is backed up off-site regularly. This data is absolutely mission-critical, so I can’t take any ris

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