The Pound program is a reverse proxy, load balancer and HTTPS front-end for Web server(s). Pound was developed to enable distributing the load among several Web-servers.
Installation
Create a directory to work in:
mkdir -p /extra/src
cd /extra/src
Download and unpack the source:
Configure it, then build and install:
./configure --with-ssl
make
make install
Basic Configuration
Create a config file /usr/local/etc/pound.cfg for a basic setup to proxy requests to an internal server:
## sample pound.cfg
#
User "nobody"
Group "nobody"
