Can Wingate function on single IP?

[teowx82]

Hi,

Does anyone know if Wingate can function on a server with 1 ip address and perform WWW Proxy service function?

Regards,
Wenxiang

[Aaron Koolen-Bourke]

Hi Wenxian.

WinGate works very well with this set up. Just set your clients up to use the WinGate IP address as their proxy address.

Thanks
Aaron

[teowx82]

Hi Aaron,

Thanks for the reply. Can advise me how do i configure my Wingate to this setting?

My situation is that i need to configure my clients to talk to proxy server, and Wingate will help me serve this request to my web server and also to do some caching function.

Regards,
Wenxiang

[Aaron Koolen-Bourke]

Hi Wengxiang.

Are you talking about a forward proxy, where you have a client browser in your network that talks to WinGate and WinGate talks to a server on the internet, or are you wanting to configure a reverse proxy where a client from outside your network talks to WinGate and WinGate acts like a webserver that's inside your network?

Regards
Aaron

[teowx82]

Hi Aaron,

I quite new to the proxy function. My web site is hosted on the web server. So my client will access the web site via WinGate. Just like what you mentioned, my client talks to WinGate and WinGate talks to my web server (either on the internet or internal network).

What is the different between forward proxy and reverse proxy? And does both function enables me to do caching?


Regards,
Wenxiang

[adrien]

Hi

Forward proxy:

The proxy sits between client computers and the Internet. Browsers on the client computers are configured to use the proxy as a proxy, and requests to the proxy specifically designate the destination of the request.

Reverse proxy

The proxy sits between a web server and the internet. the proxy makes the web server available to clients on the internet. Requests to the proxy are made by clients thinking they are talking to a web server.

Both can use caching.

Regards

Adrien

[teowx82]

Hi Aaron,

Thanks for the explanation. I would adopt forward proxy method. Can this forward proxy configuration works with only one ip address? And can kindly advise me on how to setup this configuration.

[adrien]

Hi

single IP is a standard scenario, there's no special configuration. All you need to do is install the proxy, and get the clients to use it - either manually configure them to use the proxy, or use Group Policy in Active Directory to specify the proxy.

Regards

Adrien

[teowx82]

Hi Adrien,

Thanks for the advice. For the configuration, i would use the WWW proxy service to perform the function?

I had found a few guides on configuring the WWW proxy service.

WinGate - Configuring Clients to use NAT
WinGate - Intergrating Connection Methods
WinGate - Transparent Redirection



Regard,
Wenxiang