reverse proxy?

RouterOS General
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Two questions:

  1. Let’s say I have a few web servers serving dom1.com, dom2.com, dom3.com and a mikrotik router. For security and to conserve IP addresses, I need to place the webservers behind the mikrotik router, which will act as a reverse proxy. Can this be achieved?
    /---- dom1.com webserver (private IP)
    internet — mikrotik (public IP) ----- dom2.com webserver (private IP)
    -— dom3.com webserver (private IP)

  2. Is mikrotik based on linux? Or is the web proxy based on something like squid?

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There is an example of this on the WIKI..

I looked at it yesterday…

Craig

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Excellent. The answer to (1) is at http://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/Multiple_Web_Servers

Does anyone have an answer to Qn 2?

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To question 2):

Yes, MikroTik IS based on Linux.

The new web-proxy is developed from ground up by MikroTik, IIRC. But that has more or less nothing to do with the question if it’s based on Linux?!

Best regards,
Christian Meis

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Also add an ACCEPT rule for port 8080 in the firewall entries.

Requests are destination NAT’ted from the original port to port 8080, i.e. they go to the proxy server which then forwards them to the local machines.