I was recently given cause to find an alternative to Dropbox for syncing files and creating a basic backup. I wanted to host this on my own systems on my home network. OwnCloud is the leading open-source file syncing utility. It uses standard HTTP/S for syncing, making it firewall friendly, but HTTP runs on port 80, and I already had Port 80 occupied. I could manually configure a port, but that just seems ugly to me, so instead I looked in to it and decided I needed a Reverse Proxy.
Here’s my setup:
Internet
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Firewall ------ HAPRoxy
_______|_______
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ownCloud Other
Using this blog post, I was able to quickly get this setup.
frontend slatehorizon bind 172.16.0.1:80 mode http acl is_cloud hdr_dom(host) -i cloud acl is_guac hdr_dom(host) -i guacamole use_backend cloud if is_cloud use_backend guac if is_guac backend cloud balance roundrobin option httpclose option forwardfor server cloud1 172.16.0.10 backend guac balance roundrobin option httpclose option forwardfor server guac1 172.16.0.20:8080
You’ll note that each domain can still operate with independent load balancing were that to be needed. And I am even able to redirect to HTTP running on Tomcat.
The biggest pain in all this was that these services should be secure. Unfortunately, I found no way to do it…for both. At the moment, any HTTPS traffic goes straight to the OwnCloud backend.
