# Kibana 4 as reverse proxy **URL:** \ **Category:** Kibana\ **Created:** [August 3, 2015, 8:58pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-4-as-reverse-proxy/26751 "2015-08-03T20:58:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![niraj\_kumar](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/niraj_kumar/32/4130_2.png) [@niraj\_kumar](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/niraj_kumar)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2015, 8:58pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-4-as-reverse-proxy/26751/1 "2015-08-03T20:58:31Z")
Hi All, Does anyone know how to configure apache to use kibana 4 as reverse proxy. Kibana 3 works perfectly fine but kibana 4 gives me an error. Unable to load "text!config" modules because of an unknown error apache Anyone aware of this fix? Regards Niraj ---
**Author:** ![magnusbaeck](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/magnusbaeck/32/44943_2.png) [@magnusbaeck](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/magnusbaeck)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2015, 8:51am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-4-as-reverse-proxy/26751/2 "2015-08-06T08:51:43Z")
What does the proxy portion of your Apache look like? Which Apache version? Does it work without the reverse proxy (i.e. if you head straight for port 5601)? ---
**Author:** ![Ben19](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/ben19/32/3745_2.png) [@Ben19](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Ben19)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2015, 4:23pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-4-as-reverse-proxy/26751/3 "2015-08-06T16:23:37Z")
> [@niraj\_kumar](#): > > text!config Number of fixes found in this article: [reverse-proxy: Unable to load "text!config" modules because of an unknown error. · Issue #1653 · elastic/kibana · GitHub](https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/1653) I know they were using NGINX but if you setup Apache correctly then it may help, just to add as well, I would recommend NGINX if you’re just using it as a reverse proxy since NGINX is less resource heavy than Apache. Apache is a full end web server as per design but originally NGINX was just a RP. ---
**Author:** ![niraj\_kumar](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/niraj_kumar/32/4130_2.png) [@niraj\_kumar](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/niraj_kumar)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2015, 11:53pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-4-as-reverse-proxy/26751/4 "2015-08-10T23:53:06Z")
Hi Magnusbaeck, I am using apache with reverse proxy between two instances using balancer method. Here is my config. Apache on web tier: \ ServerName [elk@xxx.com](mailto:elk@xxx.com) ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost ## Vhost docroot DocumentRoot "/opt/kibana3/src" ## Directories, there should at least be a declaration for /opt/kibana3/src \ Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews AllowOverride None Order allow,deny Allow from all ## Load additional static includes ## Logging ErrorLog "/var/log/apache2/ssl\_error.log" ServerSignature Off CustomLog "/var/log/apache2/ssl\_access.log" "%h %D %u %t "%r" %\>s %O "%{Referer}i" "%{User-Agent}i"" ## Proxy rules ProxyRequests Off ProxyPass /es balancer://elk-prod-01-es/ \ ProxyPassReverse balancer://elk-prod-01-es/ ProxyPass /\_plugin/marvel balancer://elk-prod-01-es/\_plugin/marvel \ ProxyPassReverse balancer://elk-prod-01-es/\_plugin/marvel ``` ProxyPass /_plugin/head balancer://elk-prod-01-es/_plugin/head ``` \ ProxyPassReverse balancer://elk-prod-01-es/\_plugin/head ProxyPass /\_plugin/bigdesk balancer://elk-prod-01-es/\_plugin/bigdesk \ ProxyPassReverse balancer://elk-prod-01-es/\_plugin/bigdesk ## Redirect rules Redirect /marvel /\_plugin/marvel Redirect /head /\_plugin/head Redirect /bigdesk /\_plugin/bigdsek ## SSL directives SSLEngine on SSLCertificateFile "/etc/ssl/certs/elk.crt" SSLCertificateKeyFile "/etc/ssl/private/elk.key" SSLCACertificatePath "/etc/ssl/certs" SSLCACertificateFile "/etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt" SSLProtocol All -SSLv2 -SSLv3 ## Custom fragment # Configure SSL SSLProxyEngine On #Disable gzip for apache SetEnv no-gzip 1 And the app tier has a rule to a proxy pass ProxyPass /kibana [http://localhost:5601/kibana](http://localhost:5601/kibana) ProxyPassReverse /kibana [http://localhost:5601/kibana](http://localhost:5601/kibana) And yes if i directly use app tier's IP with port 5601 port i can access it without any pain. Thanks for the help ! Regards Niraj ---
**Author:** ![magnusbaeck](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/magnusbaeck/32/44943_2.png) [@magnusbaeck](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/magnusbaeck)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2015, 3:39am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-4-as-reverse-proxy/26751/5 "2015-08-11T03:39:02Z")
> ProxyPass /kibana [http://localhost:5601/kibana](http://localhost:5601/kibana) > ProxyPassReverse /kibana [http://localhost:5601/kibana](http://localhost:5601/kibana) I think you want to have trailing slashes here, and more importantly no kibana directory on the right hand side: ``` ProxyPass /kibana/ http://localhost:5601/ ProxyPassReverse /kibana/ http://localhost:5601/ ``` Without the trailing slashes, relative URLs tend to get screwed up. The debugging console of your browser will indicate such problems quite clearly. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2017, 2:15pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-4-as-reverse-proxy/26751/6 "2017-07-06T14:15:06Z")