A Pound reverse proxy sits between the browser client(s) and the tomcat Tomcat web server(s). Its function is to forward requests received on one port to a web server on a different port. It can terminate HTTPS connections and redirect to an HTTP web server. It can also provide load-balancing by forwarding to a list of web servers.
The instructions here are for installing pound on ubuntu Pound on a Linux Ubuntu distribution and configuring it as an HTTPS server, forwarding to an HTTP web server on a non-standard port. These instructions assume that you have already created an SSL certificate in pem format.
More information on how to configure pound can be found hereon help.ubuntu.com/community/Pound.
Install Pound
These instructions assume that you are an administrator with sudo access.
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sudo apt-get install pound |
Configure Pound
Save the certificate pem file in /etc/ssl/private. Give it a meaningful name that relates to the url that it protects.
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This tells pound to terminate the encryption on any request received on port 443 (using the certificate in /etc/ssl/private/my.host.com.pem) and forward the request unencrypted to port 8080 on the same host (127.0.0.1). RewriteLocation 1 is the default setting; this tells pound to rewrite is required so that pound rewrites the Location in any redirects to HTTPS.
Enable pound
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sudo vi /etc/default/pound |
Change it from startup=0 to startup=1.
Start the service
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sudo /etc/init.d/pound start |
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