Title: Reverse Proxy
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Reverse Proxy

 *  [kerrykimrusso](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jooniya/)
 * (@jooniya)
 * [14 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/reverse-proxy-2/)
 * I’m trying to learn how WordPress works and I’m trying to move from how to develop
   for it to how the application itself works. I think it uses reverse proxy (which
   I think includes the rewrite engine and other directives included in the .htaccess
   file).
 * I’m looking for introductory resources for reverse proxy. I am by no means a 
   server guy but was hoping there were some articles out there that explained things
   in a way a developer could understand.
 * I’ve also got some web applications that are in the planning process and was 
   hoping to learn enough about reverse proxy to decide if it’s something that would
   be beneficial for the types of projects I have in the works.
 * Thanks!

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 *  [TCBarrett](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tcbarrett/)
 * (@tcbarrett)
 * [14 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/reverse-proxy-2/#post-2219777)
 * WordPress is written in PHP and is designed to use a MySQL database.
 * Anything that can read and interpret PHP can interpret the WordPress code. Commonly
   this is Apache. But it doesn’t have to be.
 * A reverse proxy would in this case be something that grabs http request packets
   and hands them over to something that can do the PHP interpretation (and then
   hand the result back to requesting client). You could use Apache for this, or
   something else like lighttp, nginx, varnish.
 * Your question sounds more like a sysadmin webserver building question, rather
   than anything WordPress specific. If you really want to learn about reverse proxies,
   then I suggest everyone’s friends Google and Wikipedia. Pick one and go their
   forums to learn how it works.

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## Tags

 * [apache](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/apache/)
 * [htaccess](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/htaccess/)
 * [proxy](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/proxy/)
 * [reverse](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/reverse/)
 * [reverse proxy](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/reverse-proxy/)
 * [server](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/server/)

 * In: [Developing with WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/wp-advanced/)
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 * Last reply from: [TCBarrett](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tcbarrett/)
 * Last activity: [14 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/reverse-proxy-2/#post-2219777)
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