Re: Proxy servers or serve direct codebase

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On Sun, Mar 16, 2025 at 4:20 AM Zahid Rahman <zahidr1000@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Let me rephrase my question then. Using Apache without the reverse proxy feature
> https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/howto/reverse_proxy.html
>
> Does it leave your apache webserver vulnerable to attack  ?

No, enabling mod_proxy in a server doesn't make it any less
vulnerable.  What type of vulnerability could it possibly mitigate?

It is reasonable to say that putting any application behind any proxy
with anything resembling security or WAF-like features makes the
backend less vulnerable to attack (on the whole).   OTOH there are
vulnerabilities that only affect proxies or the desync between the
expectations of a proxy and the backends so this is not a total
slam-dunk either.

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