Re: How to host XMLmind XML Editor Web Edition on the the same machine my website is on

Carlos Villegas wrote:
> If you're using apache httpd2 as your frontend main server, it's also possible to configure it as a reverse proxy mapping a specific path in the frontend, to reverse proxy from the xxeserver,  passing websockets and all in a tunnel. That way you don't have to expose the xxeserver port publicly, it only has to be accessible from the apache server. The frontend server will do all the TLS/SSL. If you map it to the same /xxe/ws default path, you don't even have to specify a serverurl parameter in the client. I believe that's the case. You'd use the non-ssl port in xxeserver and proxy settings as the SSL is done or can be done entirely by the proxy, tunneling plain text to the xxeserver and keeping everything secure.
> Or you can use a dedicated reverse proxy like NGINX or haproxy, in that case you'd proxy your main web server to the root path and /xxe/ws to the xxeserver making sure to pass websockets. And only the proxy server needs to be accessible publicly, usually doing all the security. I believe other web servers like the nodejs servers have also reverse proxy capabilities that can achieve the same thing.
> 
> In our testing set up, which is deployed in a Kubernetes cluster, we simply use an ingress controller, which is the standard thing in Kubernetes and is often based on a NGINX server, mapping the xxeserver to the default /xxe/ws path, the xxeserver running in a docker container pod, and our main web app in a different pod running its own web server. The ingress handles security and url mappings and hides the xxeserver and main web server internally.

Hello,

Thank you very much for this very useful Apache httpd2 tip. We'll almost 
certainly give it a try in the future. (We are currently about to 
release XXE v11.0.)

Also thank you for sharing your experience with Kubernetes, Ingress and 
Docker.

Cheers,


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