Hello!As a senior AnQiCMS website operation personnel, I fully understand all aspects of content management and system deployment.AnQiCMS is indeed a powerful tool for small and medium-sized enterprises and content operation teams with its efficient and flexible multi-site management capabilities.In practical operation, especially when deploying multiple sites, we strongly recommend using reverse proxy.This is not only a technical **practice**, but also a key strategy to ensure the long-term stability, security, and efficiency of the system.

AnQiCMS deployment features and multi-site requirements

AnQiCMS as a lightweight enterprise-level content management system developed based on the Go language, its core advantages lie in high performance and ease of deployment.Native Go applications usually listen on a specific network port to provide services, such as our AnQiCMS default listening on port 8001.This means that each independent AnQiCMS instance will occupy a port.www.example.com/blog.example.com/shop.example.com) to distinguish them.

Without reverse proxy, directly expose the port listened by the AnQiCMS instance (such asexample.com:8001To access the website, this not only does not conform to the user habits of standard ports (80/443) for HTTP/HTTPS protocols, but may also cause port conflicts and management complexity when deploying multiple AnQiCMS instances.It is more important that this will directly expose the real port and architecture of the backend service, bringing unnecessary risks to the website security.

The core function and advantages of reverse proxy

Reverse proxy plays the role of an 'intelligent intermediary' between the client and the backend server in the network architecture.For AnQiCMS multi-site deployment, reverse proxy can listen to standard HTTP/HTTPS ports (80/443) and intelligently forward requests to AnQiCMS instances running on specific ports according to the domain name or path requested by the client.This means that all external access is unified through a reverse proxy entry, and AnQiCMS itself only needs to focus on content processing, without having to directly face the complex external network environment.

The Nginx or Apache reverse proxy configuration mentioned multiple times in the document, as well as the recommended reverse proxy settings when deploying AnQiCMS in a Docker environment (such as 1Panel or Baota panel), all clearly point out the importance of this deployment method.It maps the external domain to the internal AnQiCMS service port, providing a solid foundation for our multi-site architecture.

Enhance website security

Security has always been our top priority in operating the website, AnQiCMS itself pays great attention to "software security" and "preventing many security issues.Reverse proxy plays the role of the first line of defense here.It can hide the real IP address and port of the AnQiCMS server backend, making it difficult for external attackers to directly detect the internal details of the AnQiCMS service, thereby greatly increasing the difficulty of attacks.

Optimize performance and load balancing

The website's access speed directly affects user experience and search engine ranking.Reverse proxy plays a crucial role in performance optimization.It can cache static resources, such as website images, CSS style sheets, and JavaScript files.When a user visits again or multiple users access the same static resource, the reverse proxy can directly return the content from the cache without having to request AnQiCMS each time, which significantly reduces the load on the backend server and speeds up page loading, especially complementing AnQiCMS's 'Static Caching and SEO Optimization' feature.

For large-scale multi-site deployments with high traffic, reverse proxy can also achieve load balancing.This means that when there are multiple AnQiCMS instances (even if they manage different sites or are deployed solely to share the load), the reverse proxy can evenly or by policy distribute incoming requests to different backend AnQiCMS instances, thus avoiding overload of a single instance and improving the overall availability and responsiveness of the system.AnQiCMS is developed in Go language, with features of 'high-performance architecture' and 'high concurrency', combined with reverse proxy load balancing, which can maximize its performance advantages.

Simplify domain name management and URL rewriting

AnQiCMS's multi-site management feature allows users to customize content models and diverse content presentations according to business needs, which naturally involves flexible domain and URL structures.Reverse proxy provides great convenience in this aspect.site1.com/site2.com）or URL path（such asexample.com/brand1//example.com/brand2/）Accurately route the request to the corresponding AnQiCMS site and implement unified website address management.

At the same time, the reverse proxy supports powerful URL rewrite functionality.This means we can easily implement SEO optimization strategies such as 'pseudo static and 301 redirect management', even if the URL structure inside AnQiCMS changes, it can go through a smooth transition through the reverse proxy layer to ensure the search engine friendliness of the website, and avoid traffic loss due to URL changes.

Unified logging and monitoring

Unified management of multi-site traffic through reverse proxy also brings convenience in log recording and system monitoring.All external requests will first pass through the reverse proxy, which means we can centrally collect and analyze the access logs of all sites at the reverse proxy layer.This is crucial for "traffic statistics and crawling monitoring", which can help us better understand user behavior, crawling situations, and potential abnormal access, providing data support for content strategy and SEO optimization.

This centralized log management and monitoring system simplifies the complexity of operations, reduces the need for separate monitoring configuration for each AnQiCMS instance, and improves the efficiency of fault troubleshooting.

In summary, reverse proxy is not an optional feature in the multi-site deployment of AnQiCMS, but rather the cornerstone of building an efficient, secure, scalable, easy-to-manage, and SEO-friendly enterprise-level content management system.It not only optimizes the user experience, but also provides multiple guarantees for the stable operation of AnQiCMS at the underlying architecture level.

Common Questions (FAQ)

Does reverse proxy affect the performance of AnQiCMS?

Do I need to configure a separate reverse proxy for each AnQiCMS site?

No need.AnQiCMS itself has the ability to manage multiple sites, allowing you to run multiple independent websites with a single AnQiCMS program.通常，您只需要一个反向代理服务（例如Nginx或Apache），它会根据不同的域名或URL路径规则，将请求转发到您运行AnQiCMS的单个后端服务实例。Only when you need to deploy multiple AnQiCMS instances for extremely high availability or performance, the reverse proxy will distribute traffic to these different backend instances.

Does the reverse proxy conflict with the built-in pseudo-static feature of AnQiCMS?

The reverse proxy and the pseudo-static feature built into AnQiCMS work together rather than conflict.AnQiCMS's pseudo-static feature is responsible for generating internal friendly URL structures, while the reverse proxy is responsible for correctly routing external requests' URLs (usually after pseudo-static processing) to the AnQiCMS service, and can also manage and optimize these URLs when displayed externally.The reverse proxy can even complement the pseudo-static function of AnQiCMS, handling more complex URL rewrite rules or implementing more advanced SEO strategies, such as enforcing HTTPS, adding HSTS headers, etc.