Method and associated apparatus for accessing web server

An apparatus for accessing a web server, the web server being in a local area network (LAN), the apparatus comprising:

• at least one control circuit, positioned in a subsystem of a network system, wherein the subsystem comprises a wake-on-LAN (WOL) agent device and a reverse proxy server, the WOL agent device is in the LAN, and the control circuit is arranged to control operations of at least one of the WOL agent device and the reverse proxy server;
• wherein the WOL agent device obtains web server information of the web server, and sends the web server information to the reverse proxy server, the web server information comprises at least one state of the web server, and when the reverse proxy server receives a request from a client device, the reverse proxy server refers to the state of the web server to decide whether to assign a WOL task to the WOL agent device, wherein the client device is external to the LAN, the WOL task comprises waking up the web server, and the client device sends the request to the reverse proxy server in order to access the web server through the reverse proxy server.