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pepito
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Sep 14, 2022

How to tell nginx to use another proxy to reach destination server ?

Hello. I create this discussion because of the following problem I'm encountering. Here is the situation : I have multiple servers which are in a secure network zone I have another server where ...
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  • Kevin_Stewart's avatar
    Kevin_Stewart
    Sep 15, 2022

    Could you elaborate a bit more?

    Servers in secure zone --> Server Nginx --> squid-proxy --> an internal gitlab

    Are you suggesting that traffic passing through a reverse proxy (nginx) needs to pass through a forward proxy (squid) to get to an internal resource? And if so, an explicit forward proxy?

     

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Kevin_Stewart
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Sep 15, 2022

Could you elaborate a bit more?

Servers in secure zone --> Server Nginx --> squid-proxy --> an internal gitlab

Are you suggesting that traffic passing through a reverse proxy (nginx) needs to pass through a forward proxy (squid) to get to an internal resource? And if so, an explicit forward proxy?