only allow traffic from specific servers

[Francis Daly]

On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 05:55:47AM -0500, mottwsc wrote:

Hi there,

> When the user clicks on the sign in button on
> the OUTSIDE Server, the user will be redirected to App Server 1.

> QUESTIONS:
> (1) I want to only allow App Server 1 to accept traffic coming from either
> OUTSIDE Server or App Server 2. Even if the user had bookmarked App Server
> 1, they will need to go back thru OUTSIDE Server to sign in.  How do I do
> this with NGINX?

If you use nginx to redirect to the app servers, what you seem to want
can't be done.

If you use nginx to proxy_pass to the app servers, what you seem to want
can be done. But doing it is unrelated to nginx. Look at the configuration
of the app servers and/or the network devices protecting them.

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Francis Daly        francis at daoine.org