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[Knut Staring <knutst@xxxxxxxxx>]

Caveman, we don't recommend windows for servers.

Regards, Knut (via mobile phone)
On Oct 28, 2011 7:35 PM, "Orvalho Augusto" <orvaquim@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Indeed is ngix is better for reverse proxy and a lot of more people start
> to use it. But I think there is not native ngix for windows so apache would
> fit for this.
>
> And I think is not good to edit files (on debian way)
> /etc/apache/mods-enabled. So on Docs we must change those reverse proxy
> settings to a file located at /etc/apache/sites-*.
>
> Sorry if I seem bad guy. Thanks!
>
> Caveman
>
>
>
> 2011/10/28 Lars Helge Øverland <larshelge@xxxxxxxxx>
>
>> Not trying to confuse people here. But if a reverse proxy is only
>> what's needed i can recommend using nginx over apache - its
>> specifically designed to act as one and a lot more light-weight / less
>> resource intensive than apache. On debian / ubuntu Install with
>>
>> sudo apt-get install nginx
>>
>> and then put this into the server block of
>> /usr/local/nginx/conf/nginx.conf
>>
>>  location / {
>>            proxy_pass         http://localhost:8085/dhis/;
>>            proxy_redirect     off;
>> }
>>
>> start with
>>
>> /usr/local/sbin/nginx
>>
>> and stop with
>>
>> /usr/local/sbin/nginx -s stop
>>
>>
>>
>> Lars
>>
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