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===Pound reverse proxy===
Installation
Get it from http://www.apsis.ch/pound or install it from your repository. For my testbox, I installed it from yum then install the latest version from source in /usr/local
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./configure --with-ssl=/usr/local/ssl \
--with-owner=pound \
--with-group=pound \
--with-maxbuf=1024 \
--sysconfdir=/etc
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Edit /etc/pound.cfg
%%(text;pound.cfg)
User "pound"
Group "pound"
Control "/var/lib/pound/pound.cfg"

ListenHTTP
Address 0.0.0.0
Port 80
End

ListenHTTPS
Address 0.0.0.0
Port 443
Cert "/etc/pki/tls/certs/pound.pem"
End

Service
BackEnd
Address 127.0.0.1
Port 8080
End

Session
Type IP
TTL 180
End

# BackEnd
# Address 127.0.0.1
# Port 8001
# End
End
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Then start it using service start. So much easier than squid. A primitive test using ab shows that pound+tomcat http connector performs better than apache+jk+tomcat jk connector by 10% in terms of transfer rate, mean time per request is 14% faster, request per second is also 14% more.