Reverse proxy is a type of a proxy which can hide back end servers from the client applications. According to the above figure, Original servers are not exposed to the internet. Only reverse proxy is exposed to the internet.Client knows only the reverse proxy IP address. So he thinks that he is sending a request to the reverse proxy.He doesn't know anything about the original server. You can avoid some attacks using this architecture. Today I'm going to configure Apache HTTPD server(reverse proxy) and WSO2 identity server 5.0. Please download WSO2 identity server 5.0 from here You can install apache httpd server using below commands sudo apt - get update sudo apt - get install apache2 Restart the newly install apache server sudo service apache2 restart Apache is a modular server. This implies that only the most basic functionality is included in the core server.So You have to enable few other required features. Please use below command