# Let assume our Server public ip is 202.54.1.5.
# Pound will run on 202.54.1.5 port 80 . Let us call this Pound Server.
# A Http-Request-A from a Client (Internet Browser) came into the Pound Server
# Pound Server will forward the Http-Request-A to list of internal Hosts eg. 192.168.1.11, 192.168.1.12, …. all on port 80. Let say, it pick the Host-192.168.1.11
# After the Host-192.168.1.11 process it, how does the Http-Response -A flow back to that Client (Internet Browser) ?
– Does it flow back DIRECTLY to that Client without going through the Pound Server ?
OR
– Does it flow back first to the Pound Server and then to that Client ?

I just want to investigate if there is some network bandwidth toll (incoming & outgoing) at the Pound Server which is used as a load balancer in a Cloud environment since Cloud eg.Amazon or Azure charge for incoming as well as outgoing data transfer. All I want is just the load balancing features using Pound Server inside a high availability nature of the Cloud.

Anyone, pls help. Thank a lot in advance .

Service
HeadRequire “Host:.*domain.com.*”
BackEnd
Address 192.168.1.201
Port 80
Port 1812
Port 1813

End

its none wrieable and we cannot chmode it either

does anyone have any ideas how we can make this file writable ?

Thanks in Advance
–
Kunal

Finally i found a resource which is working

thankx again

First I must say thank you for making reverse proxy so easy to configure and making techs life easy. I am running Pound 2.4.3 on RHEL5 server. I have three websites each running on separate webserver in internal network. I would like to reverse proxy them via one Pound server in DMZ. All three websites require secure connections for client and I like to install the certificates on the pound server for them. I have assigned three IPs on the pound server, one for each website. But these sites are not working. Below is my configuration.

   ListenHTTP
         Address 202.168.1.1
         Port    80
         Service
         Redirect "https://www.abc.com"
          End
End
ListenHTTPS
         Address 202.168.1.1
         Port    443
         Cert    "/usr/local/openssl/local.server.pem"
End
                  Service
                  BackEnd
                      Address 172.17.1.1
                      Port    80
                  End
End
ListenHTTP
         Address 202.168.2.2
         Port    80
         Service
         Redirect "https://www.def.com"
           End
End
ListenHTTPS
         Address 202.168.2.2
         Port    443
         Cert    "/usr/local/openssl/local1.server.pem"
End
                  Service
                  BackEnd
                      Address 172.17.2.2
                      Port    80
                  End
End
ListenHTTP
         Address 202.168.3.3
         Port    80
         Service
         Redirect "https://www.ghi.com"
           End
End
ListenHTTPS
         Address 202.168.3.3
         Port    443
         Cert    "/usr/local/openssl/local2.server.pem"
End
                  Service
                  BackEnd
                      Address 172.17.3.3
                      Port    80
                  End
End

I am redirecting HTTP requests to HTTPS as I would only like to serve clients on secure channel. This works fine if I run each website on a separate pound server but I like to have them on one reverse proxy server. I will really appreciate if you can provide me any help in this regard. If it is not possible with this configuration is there any way to achieve this on a single pound server.

Thanks,
Farhan

I have a deadline and the time is ticking. i am setting up pound as a reverser proxy for a site that runs on port 8080. I m trying to run pound on 80 and direct all the traffic to port 8080. i have pound up and running and the redirect happens fine just that when it redirects it gives me this error
“The service is not available. Please try again later”
i believe i need to add some directive under the pound.cfg fine but not sure what. this is what i have for pound.cfg

User        "pound"
Group       "pound"
LogFacility daemon
LogLevel    4
Alive       30
Client      10
TimeOut     10
Grace       10
ListenHTTP
   Address    0.0.0.0
   CheckURL   "(^\/|\.html|\.css|\.jpg|favicon\.ico|robots\.txt|\.png)$"
   HeadRemove "X-Forwarded-For"
   MaxRequest 1024
   Port       80
   xHTTP      0
  # Err414 "/var/www/htdocs/error/generic_error_page"
  # Err500 "/var/www/htdocs/error/generic_error_page"
  # Err501 "/var/www/htdocs/error/generic_error_page"
  # Err503 "/var/www/htdocs/error/generic_error_page"
Service
                  URL         ".*sessid=.*"
                  HeadRequire "Host:.*web249.solutionset.com.*"
      BackEnd
         Address  127.0.0.1
         Port     8080
      End
      Emergency
       Address    127.0.0.1
       Port       8888
      End
   End
End

i am very new to pound so any help would be really appreciated. Thank you

Thanks! and keep up all the great work!

Thanks for sharing your links. You got some pretty good stuff :)

Pound Reverse Proxy “how “to”
http://calomel.org/pound.html

Light webserver “how to”
http://calomel.org/lighttpd.html