boostrack
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First of all. What's a Reverse Proxy (RP)?
A reverse proxy is a server that sits in front of web servers and forwards client (e.g. web browser) requests to those web servers. See More
Basically is a Proxy that stands between End Users (like you) and a Website.
When a user requests a website, for example afflift.com it goes directly to the servers where afflift.com is hosted.
But what if you could use other domain name to serve traffic for afflift.com? For example: thebestaffiliateforum.com
You can and it's really easy:
1. Register the domain: thebestaffiliateforum.com
2. Setup a Ubuntu server, install nginx.
3. Configure your DNS records and point @ record to your ubuntu server.
4. Create a Reverse Proxy with Nginx that hosts thebestaffiliateforum.com but the request goes directly to afflift.com.
What you have now is a reverse proxy that get requests for thebestaffiliateforum.com but what really is happening under the hood is that the Nginx server "redirects" the request to afflift.com, receive the response and show it to the end user.
For now, you are serving traffic from a different domain. But the best part here is when you realize that the information
A reverse proxy is a server that sits in front of web servers and forwards client (e.g. web browser) requests to those web servers. See More
Basically is a Proxy that stands between End Users (like you) and a Website.
When a user requests a website, for example afflift.com it goes directly to the servers where afflift.com is hosted.
But what if you could use other domain name to serve traffic for afflift.com? For example: thebestaffiliateforum.com
You can and it's really easy:
1. Register the domain: thebestaffiliateforum.com
2. Setup a Ubuntu server, install nginx.
3. Configure your DNS records and point @ record to your ubuntu server.
4. Create a Reverse Proxy with Nginx that hosts thebestaffiliateforum.com but the request goes directly to afflift.com.
What you have now is a reverse proxy that get requests for thebestaffiliateforum.com but what really is happening under the hood is that the Nginx server "redirects" the request to afflift.com, receive the response and show it to the end user.
For now, you are serving traffic from a different domain. But the best part here is when you realize that the information