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Example: reverse proxy using Apache HTTP Server

Configuration

This configuration creates a reverse proxy where /iiif/ is the proxy address for https://lbiiif.riksarkivet.se/

SSLProxyEngine on

ProxyPass "/iiif"  "https://lbiiif.riksarkivet.se"
ProxyPassReverse "/iiif"  "https://lbiiif.riksarkivet.se"

# CORS header added to response
Header set Access-Control-Allow-Origin "*"
# Custom User-Agent
RequestHeader set User-Agent "Riksarkivet Proxy Example httpd/1.0"
# Disable Do Not Track so requests through the proxyn can be logged for statistics
RequestHeader set DNT "0"

The modules mod_proxy, mod_proxy_http and mod_ssl must be activated.

LoadModule proxy_module modules/mod_proxy.so
LoadModule proxy_http_module modules/mod_proxy_http.so
LoadModule ssl_module modules/mod_ssl.so

Docker-container

There is a pre-configured instance of Apache HTTP Server in Docker/Docker-compose in this repo at

https://github.com/Riksarkivet/dataplattform/tree/main/docs/examples/iiif_reverse_proxy/httpd

NB: this is a minimal configuration, not a complete web server setup.