Choosing a Reverse Proxy

Determine whether you need third-party reverse proxy servers in your landscape design.

Different environments have different requirements for managing in-bound application requests to SAP Mobile Platform Server. Review the criteria to help you determine which component needs to be installed and configured in your landscape.

  1. What application types do you need to support?
    Application Type Reverse Proxy
    Native Apache
    Hybrid Apache
    Agentry Nginx
  2. Is this a production or a preproduction environment?
    Typically, only production environments need a reverse proxy. Most preproduction environments or small-scale development environments do not require a reverse proxy, unless you need to replicate production systems and values as closely as possible in a development testing environment.
Once you have reviewed all evaluation criteria, you can determine whether you need to use a reverse proxy. To install and configure a reverse proxy into your SAP Mobile Platform environment. See Adding Reverse Proxies in Administrator.