Reverse Proxies

Martin can run without a reverse proxy.

Doing so has a few downsides:

• Martin does not support HTTPS connections (TLS termination).
• We do not check HOST-headers - we just serve on a port. This means anybody can point their dns record to your server and serve to all requests going to the port Martin is running on. Using a reverse proxy makes this abuse obvious.
• Martin only supports a simple in-memory caching. If you need more advanced caching options, you can use a reverse proxy with custom rules. You may for example only want to cache zoom 0..10. Here are some reverse proxy options:
  • Nginx
  • Varnish
  • Apache
• You may need to host more than just tiles/resources on the domain name.
• Martin has a fixed public API, but your site may require a different structure. For example, you may want to serve tiles from /{sourceID}/tiles?z={z}&x={x}&y={y} instead of /{sourceID}/{z}/{x}/{y}.