Specifications
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To create or edit aliases the site responds to:
1 Open Server Admin and connect to the server.
2 Click the triangle at the left of the server.
The list of services appears.
3 From the expanded Servers list, select Web.
4 Click Sites, then select the website in the list.
5 Click Aliases below the websites list.
6 To create aliases, click the Add (+) button under the Web Server Aliases list or select an
alias and click the Edit button.
7 In the Server Alias eld, enter an alias and click OK.
8 To create a redirect, click the Add (+) button under URL Aliases and Redirects list or
select a redirect and click the Edit (/) button.
9 Choose one of the following options from the Type pop-up menu:
 Alias: Maps from the URL term to a location in the le system.
 Alias Match: Maps a regular expression pattern for a path to a location in the le
system.
 Redirect: Maps a URL term to redirect to another server.
 Redirect Match: Maps a regular expression pattern for a path to redirect to another
server.
10 In the Pattern eld, enter the pattern for the alias or redirect.
This is the pattern input from the incoming URL.
11 In the Path eld, enter the path for the alias or redirect and click OK.
This is the path in the le system or the redirect that gets sent back to the requester.
12 Click Save.
Setting Up a Reverse Proxy
You set up a reverse proxy using the Proxy pane in the Sites pane of Server Admin.
A reverse proxy diers from a forward proxy by appearing to client computers as a
normal web server. The client computers make requests to the web server. The reverse
proxy then determines the location to send the requests to and returns web content
as if it were the web server. Client computers do not need conguration changes to
use a reverse proxy.
You can use a reverse proxy to provide Internet users with access to a server located
behind a rewall. A reverse proxy can also balance network trac among several
back-end servers or provide caching for a slower back-end server. Administrators also
use a reverse proxy to bring several servers into the same URL space.