Separate Frontend and backend

[minicooper]

Hello!
Is it possible to serve frontend from one web-server (e.g. 192.168.0.133) and connect to another server (192.168.0.132) for backend requests?

[Wolfgang Rosenauer]

Hi,
sure, this is I would call the normal operation ;-) Obviously 127.0.0.1 is also possible but the communication is TCP based in any case. The webserver is used to proxy the backend requests though.

[minicooper]

Oh, nice! How to install and configure web-interface separately? Is there a guide?
We use an old 6.22 version.

[Wolfgang Rosenauer]

It should be rather straightforward. All packages installed under the webserver's docroot on the Apache/frontend server and all others on the backend/middleware server. Then just make sure that the proxy_http.conf is updated with the middleware IP. There is not much more than that from the top of my head.