I saw some performance of GWAN and interested in testing it as a reverse proxy of static content in front of Apache with APC for optimizing PHP opcode, to run a WordPress multisite. I can get GWAN up and running but I have no idea how to configure it for reverse proxy, as there seems to be almost no information on it. Anyone use GWAN as a reverse proxy?
How to configure GWAN as a reverse proxy?
It’s still a not documented feature … maybe in a next release ? @gil ?
Right now there’s no easy way for you to do that. That will change with the next release.
We first hardcoded the reverse-proxy feature in G-WAN along with the load-balancer. Then, as we needed to personalize reverse-proxying, we implemented it as a
protocol handlerscript.Protocol handlerscripts allow users to implement any protocol (like SMTP, LDAP, etc.) without haveing to deal with multi-threading nor socket events.But finally, to reduce complexity for users, we might revert to the hard-coded implementation with
connection handlersscripts to let people personalize the reverse proxy.It’s maturing under different use cases, hence the delay in publicly releasing this feature and a few others.
Rushing to implement features and interfaces is not always optimal, if the goal is to stay flexible and easy to use.