Comment on Certificate management
Decronym@lemmy.decronym.xyz 1 year ago
Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:
| Fewer Letters | More Letters |
|---|---|
| DNS | Domain Name Service/System |
| HTTP | Hypertext Transfer Protocol, the Web |
| IP | Internet Protocol |
| VPN | Virtual Private Network |
| nginx | Popular HTTP server |
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Valmond@lemmy.mindoki.com 1 year ago
Is nginx a HTTP server? I use it as a proxy.
meteokr@community.adiquaints.moe 1 year ago
It is primarily a http server, its ability to act as a http reverse proxy is a product of that. Apache can do the same thing, its just less common to see it used that way.
Valmond@lemmy.mindoki.com 1 year ago
Oh alright, thank you!
computergeek125@lemmy.world 1 year ago
And to make your terminology life a bit harder, the distinction between forward and reverse proxy matters: reverse proxies sit in front of web servers, while forward proxies sit in front of systems or networks.
Reverse proxies pretend to be the web server they’re terminating traffic for - programs like nginx, Apache (https), lighttpd, and HAProxy you may see doing this.
Forward proxies need to be told where to go by a web browser, and will then (if the ACL allows) connect (and often but not always filter) the browser to the final server. In some networks, the forward proxy can be seen as something like a firewall but specifically for web traffic. The only forward proxy I know of off hand is Squid, but I imagine many more exist that I do not remember.