arudesalad to Selfhosted@lemmy.worldEnglish · 11 months agoWhat's the point of a reverse proxy and does cloudflare give all the benefits of one?message-squaremessage-square29fedilinkarrow-up199arrow-down17
arrow-up192arrow-down1message-squareWhat's the point of a reverse proxy and does cloudflare give all the benefits of one?arudesalad to Selfhosted@lemmy.worldEnglish · 11 months agomessage-square29fedilink
minus-squareDarkassassin07@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·edit-211 months agoYes, typically the proxy will listen on 443/80 and all the services it proxies to just use their defaults. For example: emby.example.tld, port 443 > cloudflare, port 443 > your reverse proxy, port 443 > emby, port 8096 All the client sees is emby.example.tld on port 443 and the resulting web application, everything in between is transparent.
Yes, typically the proxy will listen on 443/80 and all the services it proxies to just use their defaults.
For example: emby.example.tld, port 443 > cloudflare, port 443 > your reverse proxy, port 443 > emby, port 8096
All the client sees is emby.example.tld on port 443 and the resulting web application, everything in between is transparent.