Reverse Proxy

Reverse Proxy Notes

In the context of Webflow-hosted sites, a reverse proxy is a type of server that sits between your website visitors and your Webflow-hosted site.

When someone makes a request to your domain, your proxy handles and routes it according to the rules you setup, and retrieves the content from your Webflow hosted site indirectly, back to your users.  

Its name comes from the role it plays in reversing the standard client-server relationship in a network.

Popular use cases w/ Webflow-hosted sites

• Customize your site URL paths, e.g. _{/blog/category/article}.
• Return specific file content that you cannot create or host in Webflow, such as _{/.well-known/} files.
• Merge multiple sites together, e.g. your main site, blog, and store, so that they appear under a single domain.
• Modify pages as they are returned, in special ways

Tutorials

How to build your own on Cloudflare workers, or other platforms;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6TbDJ4yuGk&ab_channel=Finsweet

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lX3tovJ3gcE&ab_channel=Finsweet

https://medium.com/@liran_co/how-to-use-webflow-to-host-parts-of-your-site-cloudflare-workers-f0f972503aef

https://createtoday.io/posts/cloudflare-webflow

Notes

https://discourse.webflow.com/search?q=proxy

Paid Solutions

https://subfold.io/

https://cryolayer.com/#pricing

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