Backends in path

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This feature is available in Artica v.4.30 with Service pack unstable v967 or Artica v4.40.
Instead of changing the path or modifying it, the engine will connect to a remote server to retrieve the remote content and display it as if the content was part of the main site.

Imagine a "support.articatech.com" site that is hosted on a standalone web server.
Your main site is www.articatech.com and you would like that when users connect to https://articatech.com/support, the remote content of support.articatech.com is displayed.

The backends section allows you to perform this operation.
It also allows you to specify multiple remote addresses which will then provide load-balancing.

Add a Backend

• On your Website, select the “Paths” section, choose your “Path” 
• Select the “Backends” tab.

• Click on New Backend

1. Hostname/IP address: Give the fully qualified hostname or the Ip address.
   If you did not want the reverse proxy to query DNS to resolv the targeted IP, but use a defined host, put this formula:
   hostname(ip addr) eg: support.articatech.com(51.77.246.83)
2. Target remote root path: Set where to retreive the content as root (by default “/” ). 
   If you want to point to a remote directory aka support.kaspersky.com/auth, set the /auth in this field
3. Port: If the target server use a specific port.
4. Use the SSL Encryption: If the remote server use https.

Multiple backends

1. You can add several backends but be aware that you can't mix options.
   For example, mix a backend that uses SSL and a backend that uses HTTP. 
   If you do this, both backends will use SSL.
2. When you use several backends, a load-balancing will take place, make sure that the backends are in the same format.

In this example,the 2 backends use HTTP and SSL.
So the SSL will take place and the reverse proxy will try to access to artica-proxy.fr on 80 using SSL.