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Edmund Turbin - Solutions [email protected]

WordPress and Reverse ProxyHow WordPress can integrate with enterprise websites

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About Me

Solutions Engineer @ WP Engine Front End Dev

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Edmund Turbin



What is a Proxy

I make a request

proxy gets what I asked for



Forward Proxy

client makes request to proxy proxy gets request from server

proxy returns request caches request

Intermediary assocated with the client



Proxy

The cloud

FORWARD PROXY



Reverse Proxy

client makes request external proxy

returns cached request or, gets request from server

Intermediary assocated with the server



Varnish

The cloud

CACHING DIAGRAMServer



Why Reverse Proxy?

Not on the same network custom application

Legacy system transition Users restricted to system by role

Two systems on the same domain



Reverse Proxy and WordPress

WordPress to handle content external system to integrate seamlessly

same domain users will not be able to tell theyre on two systems

How does this apply to WordPress?



Enterprise WordPress




What makes WordPress enterprise ready?

Scalability

Security Complex Integrations Multilingual Support

SSO / Access Control




Whos Using WordPress in enterprise?




Large community No license costs Extensible - Many integrations

Stable, actively maintained, trusted Simple for users, content creators

What are the benefits?




No support

Awareness in enterprise market

What are the challenges?



Solutions

Proxy pass from WordPress Proxy pass from external website

CDN based solution Subdomains



RequirementsProxy Pass to/from WordPress Block requests from other servers Update links to reflect site structure

wp-config.php plugin



Whitelist IP

Allow access from only a single IP



nginx

PROXY PASSif URL matches: fetch content from other server

location /some/site { proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1; }



wp-config

define('WP_HOME','http://site.com/subfolder/'); define('WP_SITEURL','http://site.com/subfolder/');

$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] = '/subfolder' . $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']; $_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME'] = '/subfolder' . $_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME']; $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'] = '/subfolder' . $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'];



WordPress Reverse Proxy

The cloud

App 1 App 2site.com/blog

site.com/appsite.com

REVERSE PROXY 1



WordPress Load Balancer

The cloud



REVERSE PROXY 2



Simpler Solutions

3rd party DNS level split Requests will not pass through additional infrastructure

If issues arise, troubleshooting is narrowed down



Content Delivery Networks




The cloud



REVERSE PROXY 3

CDN



Subdomains

Simple solution Create subdomain with your domain registrar

Forward the subdomain to new site Mask the domain so that the original URL displays




The cloud

App 1 App 2blog.site.com


REVERSE PROXY 4



The Future

Couldnt we just use the REST API?



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