UUIDs are really fantastic. They provide a seemingly endless supply of unique values that you can be used to tag items, identify database records, and much more.

A uuid is basically a 128-bit number. It is hard to express how many possible UUIDs there can be, but let me try nonetheless.

There are numerous benefits to using a proxy server. These include, but are not limited to, performance benefits from load balancing and security benefits from the additional layer of separation between outside users and the web server(s).

A clear set of instructions for configuring an Apache2 SSL proxy for a Drupal site is hard to find. Here is a solution that has worked for me. I hope it will spare others some frustration.