Discourse + web server. Possible or better to avoid?

[Benjamin_D (Benjamin Decotte)]

Not sure if it’s more complex to use apache as a server and a proxy than bundling nginx or HAproxy
About the tutorial, CentOS or Ubuntu shouldn’t make a lot of differences, apt instead of yum ,
https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/360029696071-Restoring-original-visitor-IPs-Option-2-Installing-mod-remoteip-with-Apache instead of

@AstonJ

For Centos 7, use: mod_remoteip - Apache HTTP Server Version 2.5

may I suggest this for apache as a reverse proxy

Discourse behind reverse proxy and https

I got Apache2 working “no problem” in a test bed with Apache2 as a reverse proxy to a unix socket in the container: The only difference I found (note: only a few hours of testing, nothing complete) was: Apache2 will not work with with a symlink to the unix socket in the shared volume in the container; Apache2 was a bit slower in a rough test, but not by much. Personally, I’m not a fan of religious wars over technologies; so I disagree that “Apache2 will give you a lot of issues.” I did n…