Specifications

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Firewall Administration System (FAS)
Figure 3.31: Configuration of the External HTTP Proxy
The Example, Inc., Configuration
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The external HTTP proxy has to know on which port the Web server can be
accessed.
HTTP Proxy Port 80
The basic configuration of the firewall rules can again be generated automati-
cally by activating ‘Auto listen to’.
All that is left are the forwarding rules for the proxy. In this way, requests to
http://www.example.com/ are forwarded to the web server. The follow-
ing rules are necessary for this:
local path: Destination URL:
/ http://192.168.8.9
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In ‘Access Configuration’, it is possible to restrict the networks from which
requests may be made. This is not wanted here so ‘Access allowed for’ is set
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